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Empowered Q Notes

When playing Shen, you should optimize the position of your spirit blade-- as it has the ability to slow the enemy if it passes through them giving you: attack speed, damage, and range to counter act their play. Which gives you lots of power to kite them out to only give you the chance to win the fight in the end.

Some easy ways to utilize empowered Q is:

1) Aligning your Q to go through enemies + hit your empowered Qs off + then E afterward + Q as it will go off cd(making sure it goes through them).

2) E into enemy, then go behind them to pull your Q behind them to activate the empowered Q. A faster approach here is to Q, then E right after wards or flash taunt / taunt flash as the Q will land where ever you stop the taunt.

Early game:

Shen support is very lethal if played correctly. You can easily get a pick level 2, or get the enemy very low at level 1 with your taunt + ignite combo. You can always taunt flash and peel away at their health for your ADC with your Q.

Mid game:

Now come mid game, you want to start warding deep with couldrons and red to avoid ganks from JG+ mid. You want to also make sure you are warding near dragon as well to avoid dragon set ups from their team.

Late game:
In the late game, your goal is to orientate your warding based on where the team fight is occurring. Say the team fight is occurring top side towers. Then you will want to ward around north red bushes to get intel on possible enemies coming through to that fight.

The main core items for Shen Support are:

Spirit Visage : Provides lots of shielding with shen's passive throughout game.

Pauldrons of Whiterock: as a support, one of your main goal is to provide good warding accross the map. You can do this with these items throughout the game.

Pros

Huge game impact

At times, shen jg can have an impact at two places of the map in seconds by using his ultimate.

Has one of the best level 2 gank potential out of other jg champs with his taunt
E combo cc + empowered Q

Provide great peel with ult, taunt, and Spirit's Refuge

Great engage / disengage with his E.

Can start a fight instantly, or get out of situations, with his E or flash E.

Has W to shield from incoming autos.

W can shield himself, and others that are inside the radius for a limited time.
This can tremendously help out in ganks + teamfights if properly positioned.

Energy based

Pretty good sustain when farming. Especially Shen's Q refills a bit of energy on hit.

Cons

Ult CD is pretty long early to mid game depending on runes + items.

Energy based

Running out of energy during a fight can be lethal.