Hello everyone, this is my first guide, so I would welcome any feedback you have. Shen is,in my opinion, one of the most overpowered champs in the game. This guide will show you how to take overpowered and turn it into godpowered. SPECIAL THANKS: Credits to jhoijhoi for the template, which you can find here.

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Pros + Global Ultimate + Abilities scale on hp + Good escape with Dash + Good Harrass with Vorpal Blade + Very Tanky Shen can be anywhere on the map almost instantly to help an ally when his ult is up. He can make great turret dives, and has high survival chance under the turret with low hp. Ex. An Enemy champ sees u have 100 hp left,, they run in, u feint, dash on them, vorpal blade, flash out. They die. The End.

Cons - Almost allways banned in ranked To be honest, this is probably the only downside to Shen. He is an amazing tank, and so op he is banned constantly.

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For the masteries in the attack category, I use them because of the massive cd on [[Shen] ultimate. The rest of the masteries of basic tank selections.

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• Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed: These runes are very helpful in initiating team fights, and chasing down an enemy low on hp.
  
• Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: The magic penetration might seem odd to have, because there is no ability power in the build, but it is actually very helpful in harrasing with your q early game
  
• Greater Glyph of Magic Resist: This base magic resist is helpful in lane sustain
  
• Greater Seal of Armor: This base armor is helpful in lane sustain

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Ignite: Most enemies will expect the tank to have exhaust or heal, but shen simply doesn't need either. Ignite is far more useful in taking down enemies with large lifesteal or health regen, and simply grabbing an extra kill from a running enemy.

Flash: Flash is always helpful for escapes or fast initiaion.

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• Ki Strike: This ability is very strong, and scales with your hp. It's the perfect tank passive.
  
• Vorpal Blade (Q): Great for harrasing, and also allows youto heal yourself and your allies, and the health regeneration scales with your hp aswell.
  
• Feint (W): This shield cd is so fast at level 18 that it seems it is on half the time. Very good for tanking turrets and turret diving.
  
• Shadow Dash (E): This ability is very helpful early game, to drag your enemy into the turret, a great initiator, and a good escape.
  
• Stand United (R): A great global ultimate, the main reason Shen is banned so much. Also a means of escape for shen if you are being chased.

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All of your abilities are very important, but upgrading Shadow Dash early on mostly only reduces the cooldown, which is still long. It is best just to level up that ability last. Vorpal Blade is a great harraser and sustain tool,so it should be leveled up first. Stand United should of course be leveled up as quickly as possible. Finally, Feint shields shen for large amounts of damage, making it a useful second ability.

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Now, I'm sure if u saw my second build, you are thinking, " why all this hp and only a small amount of armor and magic resist?" It's because of the Ki Strikeand Vorpal Blade. Building health allows your passive ability to do way more damage, and increases the Vorpal blade heal for you AND your allies by a huge amount.

This picture shows your Ki Strike stats with the second build(Notice the 6024 Health)

Yes, you saw correctly. That is 472 damage.

And this picture shows the Vorpal Blade heal

Yes, that heals 37 hp per second. Now add that to your hp regen, which is 108 per second. While attacking your enemy, you get 145 health per second.

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Mercury Treads

This is important for shen's initations, and when he chases after an enemy

A great item for health

An important item for stopping your enemies from fleeing, aswell as providing attack damage and health.

The Unique Active makes for a great tool in teamfights to counter the ADC

Your main magic resist, also helps scale up all your abilities

Atma's and Warmogs go together verywell, and it provides a large amount of attack damage aswell as armor to make you a threat to the enemy team.

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OVerall, Shen is one of the best champs in the game. Hopefully this guide will help you use him to greater effect. Again, if you have any feedback, please post it. Thanks for reading SPECIAL THANKS: Credits to jhoijhoi for the template, which you can find here.

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