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Hello, this is my informational guide revolving around shen, created for NUTTYHACKER in the OCE region Shen is a great champion, although people view him as underpowered, useless and weak, this is because they are playing him wrong, Shen is such a strong champion, except the fact is, he is not a true tank, and as such, building him this way will result in a bad experience, leaving a sour taste for him in people's mouths. My thanks to jhoijhoi and her awesome guide (it helped a lot).

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Pros + Easy last hitting with Ki Strike and Vorpal Blade + Extremely low cooldowns on Ki Strike and Feint + Really good teamfight with Shadow Dash + Large Shield with Stand United + Good poke with q + A Ninja + Built in sustain + Short CD Shield + Non Mana reliant

Cons - Not very strong without items - One of the highest spell cooldowns on Stand United - Hasn't got as much potential as champions such as Riven or Yasuo - Vorpal Blade got nerfed - Squishy without proper itemization - Taunting wrong target can be costly - Built in sustain is weak early -

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Tier 1: Fury is simple, you deal more damage because of a higher attackspeed, you are going to want the bonus attackspeed because you are going to be doing more damage through your auto attacks

Tier 2: The bonus 3% damage far outweighs the 1.5% extra you will be taking, hell you will out sustain that tiny bit of damage you take anyway, so Double Edged Sword is a very good choice, although the 20 heal on Feast looks good, you heal more from one aa on a target with Vorpal Blade on them, so its unneeded

Tier 3: Natural Talent all ninja's are naturally talented, this is just to show that to the world, also, the buff to damage and your shields doesn't hurt

Tier 4: Oppressor this benefits your taunt greatly, going pretty good amounts of bonus damage when you taunt an enemy champ.

Tier 5:
Battering Blows the 7% armor pen is nice as you do around a 70% physical damage and 30% magic damage mix, but you can go 3 points into Battering Blows and 2 points into Piercing Thoughts if you really want to.

Tier 6: Fervor of Battle I find this to be the best of the keystones on Shen because every time he used e or q he gains 16 damage, which quickly ramps up once you engage, as all you will need is a auto attack combo and you have your full 80 bonus damage, and with such high attackspeed, you get more out of this mastery than any other. This mastery is also going to be buffed to stack faster and do more damage, so its a win win situation.
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Tier 1: Sorcery is simple, you deal more damage because of the higher spell damage, you are going to want the bonus spell damage because you are going to be doing more damage through your q, passive and e.

Tier 2: The bonus 3% damage far outweighs the 1.5% extra you will be taking, hell you will out sustain that tiny bit of damage you take anyway, so Double Edged Sword is a very good choice, although the 20 heal on Feast looks good, you heal more from one aa on a target with Vorpal Blade on them, so its unneeded

Tier 3: Natural Talent all ninja's are naturally talented, this is just to show that to the world, also, the buff to damage and your shields doesn't hurt

Tier 4: Oppressor this benefits your taunt greatly, going pretty good amounts of bonus damage when you taunt an enemy champ.
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• Greater Mark of Attack Speed: There's nothing really special about this one, it just synergizes so well with Shen, that's obvious right?. Yes. Shen scales extremely well with attackspeed, so its logical to take more with runes right?

• Greater Seal of Armor is really good against AD enemies and AP's are going to AA from time to time anyway.

• Greater Seal of Scaling Health are great to have, bumping your hp per level up to 91.5 per lever, letting you become all the more tanky as you lane

• Go with 3x Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist and 6x [[Greater Glyph of Magic Resist. This gives shen decent early game magic resist, but it also amps it up when ever he levels, this rune is also one of the most effecient scaling runes in the game, being x3 its flat counter part, with most other runes only being x2 their counterpart

• Greater Quintessence of Attack Speed are great to use because as stated above, attackspeed scales extremely well on Shen compared to the other quintessence options

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• Greater Mark of Hybrid Penetration are great marks to use when playing ap shen, as they make his poke and all in fights much stronger, though Greater Mark of Magic Penetration can also be taking to make his Ki Strike, Vorpal Blade and Shadow Dash do more damage in fights.

• Greater Seal of Armor is the standard pick, making you tankier to survive the early game easier

• Greater Glyph of Magic Resist is to just give you that little bit of early magic resistance to stand against the magic damage you may find

• Greater Glyph of Scaling Ability Power are there to make you hit harder with every level, ramping your damage and poke up ever more with every level, it also adds quite a bit to your shield

• Greater Quintessence of Ability Power this is just standard early game damage to make your abilities hit harder.

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Great tool that slows enemies by a massive amount for a noticeable length, also granting great health and armor, increasing the durability of Shen against physical champions.

Sustain, attackspeed, movement speed and on hit damage that does more damage the tankier they are, with your attackspeed, I cannot see a reason not to buy Blade of the Ruined King.

Large amounts of on hit damage, an auto attack reset and an aoe attack? Titanic Hydra is extremely useful on shen

Wit's End is a very useful item to have on Shen as it makes you tankier with every hit on an enemy champion, as well as making them take more damage from your spells and auto attacks.

What else is there to say? This item is a must, this supplies Shen with a massive amount of bonus move speed and makes him very tanky, and as a cherry on top it slows and does bonus damage as well.

I like to choose this item on Shen because of its extremely good synergy with his kit, allowing him to proc Ki Strike more often and giving him the ability to stick to a champ no matter what because of the constant move speed steroid.

I like to choose this item on Shen because of it gives him large amounts of healing when he casts Vorpal Blade it also gives him more durability in close combat when his abilities are on cooldown

I like to choose this item on ap Shen because of its extremely good synergy with his q, allowing him to proc it when he attacks with Vorpal Blade doing massive amounts of damage

Standard item when playing high damage burst mages

Makes you do more damage and take less when against mages, win win situation

CDR so he can cast Vorpal Blade and Feint more often, as well as on hit damage and attackspeed for close combat dueling

CDR and lots of move speed, what else do you need?

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In conclusion, Shen is a freaking beast, and if you play him right you will carry games with ease. With all honesty, this is what this guide was about.

Why would you ruin this for the world rito... Shen was awesome ;-;