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Recommended Items
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Items
Ability Order
Ki Barrier (PASSIVE)
Shen Passive Ability
The Eye of the Twilight


Hello everyone and welcome to my




Credits to jhoijhoi for her quide How to Make a Guide, which you can find here and to IceCreamy for his column guide which you can find here.



+ Amazing survivability
+ Nice gank with taunt + Great ulti for teamfights + Nice harass early game + No resources reliant. |
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- Medium damage output
- You won't take many kills - Permabanned champion - Somewhat expensive build - Somewhat easy to zone. |
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RUNES
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Alternative Masteries






Runes




Greater Mark of Magic Penetration - Some magic penetration to enhance your harass with
Vorpal Blade.
Greater Seal of Armor - The extra armor you need to feel comfy against dps early game.
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist - An overall boost to your magic resist as the game goes on and you level up.
Greater Quintessence of Magic Resist - Some more magic resist. I prefer more magic resist than armor because it's more difficult to purchase magic resist items early game and Shen has no scaling MR stats on his own.
These are the runes I use but that doesn't mean that you must use these at all costs. I simply suggest those for the reasons above.
Alternative Runes

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My personal number 2 choice for Shen. The increased attack speed will make
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They works really good on him as they help your last hitting and make trades easier for you.
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These seals will provide you with an extra 4 HP regen per 5 secons aiding your sustain in lane.
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You can pick these up when you are going against a heavy AP team or an AP top to withstand some damage early on.
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Awsome runes in every champion. The increased MS will help you throughout the game in a lot of circumstances, from chasing down an opponent to reaching an ally faster in order to help him.
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Same reasoning as the Seals, these will provide you with an extra 8 HP regen per 5 secons aiding your sustain in lane.
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Vorpal Blade is your main attack spell and an amazing harass early game that marks your target. Autoattacking a marked enemy will heal the attacking champion for a percentage of your maximum health. Killing your target with
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Feint is your very own shield. Not only it shields you but it also help decreasing the CD on your
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Stand United is the reason you will be loved by your allies.
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Tips






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This insect fellow can be a pretty tough opponent. He can be harrassed through ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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You need to keep your stats to a point that you don't lose the opponent's aggro.







You may know them already or you may not. This are some of the tips I will provide to make playing

- Use
Vorpal Blade when you are low on health to last hit minions and regen some health.
- Throw a
Vorpal Blade to negate the effect of
Banshee's Veil.
Shadow Dash can be used to escape through walls. More specificaly:

- A good aimed
Flash may allow you to taunt more enemies.
Shadow Dash will reveal stealthed enemies like
Twitch or
Evelynn if it hits them.
Shadow Dash can break channeling ulties like
Nunu & Willump's
Absolute Zero or
Fiddlesticks'
Crowstorm
- Remember to tell your team that your ulti is up.
- Using ulti on a stealthed ally won't reveal him and will teleport you for a great gank.
Feint can block turret shots pretty well.
- Use
Feint after
Shadow Dash to minimize the incoming damage.
- A new one I just tested. Some times your allies need a shield simply to run away from a gang with 20 HP. Using your ulti however will teleport you right in the middle of 4 opponents with no exit route or backup. So here's a tip. Use
Stand United on your ally and immediately
Teleport to the closest turret. You provide the shield without any risk of 4 vs 1. This however will result in using both your ulti and
Teleport so read the situation and try not to overuse it. Afterall you are the tank and you are suppose to jump into the fight. Remember that this is only for extreme situation where your ally has a chance of escaping.

In case your teammates ask you to ward and you don't know how, there is a nice map I found that shows you how to do it.

These are the most important places you need to ward as they help you protect your jungle from invasions and your lanes from ganks. Notice that both Dragon and Baron are warded with a


27/3/12 Added a new trick that found usefull in Tips section.
03/4/12 Added

26/5/12 Reworked the BBCoding! Hope you like it!
26/5/12 Started working on Against Other Solo Top section.
27/5/12 Against Other Solo Top section completed!
27/5/12 Added a Screenshot Section!
04/7/12 Reworked the Spell section.
11/7/12 Changed Spells, Spell Section, Purchase Order, Runes, and Masteries a bit. Thanks to RosePhoenix for the great feedback!
14/7/12 Added


01/9/12 Added my home-made banners, an Alternative Rune Section and an Alternative Masteries Section. Hope you like it. Thx to Anastsios for the feedback!
10/9/12 Added my first homemade video!
11/9/12 Added the United We Stand Section with an other homemade video.
11/10/12 Added a Jungling Section!
06/12/12 Major update! Season 3 items, masteries and runes!
06/01/13 Updated Masteries and Summoner Spells. Also deleted the Jungle Section.
09/2/13 Updated the whole guide exccept the Solo Top section. Name changed also.
21/3/13 Finally updated the Solo Top Section.
28/7/13 Added Aatrox on the Solo Top Section and made a minor change in the offensive masteries.
05/8/13 Had to rework the item section since the changes on MR Items. Also added some screenshots that you guys posted.

Thanks a lot for reading my guide.
Have fun playing

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Again I want to thank:
- jhoijhoi for her guide about making a Guide.
- IceCreamy for his Column Guide.
- Siveo for letting me use his Shadow Dashing pictures for my Tips Section.
- All of you for reading my guide!!

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