Hmm. i will try this before voting... but I pretty much agree with the "don't mess up a good tank" thing.. Shen is one of the best and is really not made to do a lot of damage.. i mean even his ki strike scales with health... thats like Riot saying: "Be Tank!". idk.. like i said, i will try it. but I would be surprised if this is very effective.

Now adding a rylai's and abyssal scepter to your tank build i can understand. that gives you some nice ap for shields.

i agree...shen is simple one of the best tanks out there! why on earth would you bastardize him into an ap? seriously with so many champs who outrange him and outskill him with ap...id rather not waste my time...if i wanna be the killing machine ill choose a champ suited to that style.

thanks for the build...

Ok so I saw how you were trying to school me about playing Shen so i took a look at this build. Great, your doing dps, but im playing support, I dont go around nuking my blades out and spamming feint thinking I can survive everything people throw at me. Even if I were to survive, probably a simple stun and or silence will kill watever future plans I may have.

AP Shen is a totally different playstyle then the tank Shen, tank shens only throw their blades at the person everybody is focusing, then hang around waiting for a good taunt.

Your Shen loves to nuke everybody while popping your 1k shield and forgetting that you just ran outta energy to taunt but who cares they dead, or you dead.

Anyways, about the build.
Never liked Mejai's. Its simply isnt worth it unless you are rawking really badly. I would rather substitute a Mejai for the deathfire late game then the other way around because deathfire has more uses. By the time you know Mejai's isnt helping you, the game is gonna be real hard to turn around.

And no i dont rate builds unless they good. Never downvoted in my life unless the guide is outdated.

cuz akali dies very fast and AP Shen has high Survivability and high damage, not only his Vorpal Blade is powerfull but also his shields

Other than a powerful Vorpal Blade, could you give any compelling reasons to play AP? Why not leave AP dps to Akali and play Shen as a tank?

wow!its really good...i've tried many ap shen builds but i think that this is the best!!! gj Soulb4ne

nice guide man!its the best of all i have seen for ap shen.