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Hey, sorry for the long wait but here's your requested review.

Summoner Spells: Heal is just not a great choice anymore. Especially considering most top laners will be running Ignite rendering Heal almost completely useless. For Shen, look at getting either Ignite or Teleport.
Runes: While I kind of get what you're trying here, it's just not good. There's really no nice way of saying it but what you're doing is just not viable. Health runes just don't really give enough of a bonus to make them worth it compared to other runes. For marks I'd suggest Greater Mark of Magic Penetration, for seals you should -always- get 9 Greater Seal of Armor if you're laning top, for glyphs you should either get Greater Glyph of Magic Resist or Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist and your quints should either be Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed, Greater Quintessence of Armor or Greater Quintessence of Health. You could also get more armor and magic resistance from marks if you feel like you need it.
Item build: Starting with a Rejuvenation Bead is also really not a good choice. As a top laner, you'll most of the time need Boots for safety of ganks or Cloth Armor to make you more durable for early trades with your lane opponent.
Look at getting a Heart of Gold early on but don't rush it into a Randuin's Omen immediatly. First, look at getting items such as Phage/ Frozen Mallet, Wit's End and then maybe finish the Randuin's Omen (in that order).
Thornmail is also not a very good item to get. Especially when you already have a Randuin's Omen it really isn't needed.
Skill Sequence: Feint should be maxed second as it makes you a lot more durable in the lane.
Masteries: Putting 30 points into defense is never a good idea. There's a lot of pretty bad masteries in there that just are not worth getting. Look at putting 9 points into offense to get Arcane Knowledge as it will increase your harass damage and 21 points in defense are more than enough. The masteries you should definitely have in the defense tree are: Veteran's Scars , Enlightenment , Initiator and Juggernaut .

I'll leave it at this for now. I really hope you take this advice seriously as I feel there is a lot of work needed on this guide. I also want to clarify I mean absolutely no offense with anything I've said in this guide, I'm just giving you my honest opinion and I think there are things that need to change in order for this guide to be viable.

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Great Build man, works like a charm! xP

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By the end of the game I have 3.5k health, and just with the maw of malmortis my damage is at a steady 170. (With no health done.) Also, the Maw of Malmortis is great for it's Magic Defense as well, makes for a great tank Item. I got rid of Warmog's for Randuin's so that this build is way more balanced.

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I think Maw of malmortious is not good enough. let's see, with 50% health missing you get 20 damage. I think, you will get this damage from , your passive and Q, if you take instead of Maw of malmortious.

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Voted +1

Sorry for double post. Forgot my upvote :P

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Good guide Brandon, I'm not only upvoting this guide because I've seen you play this in action going 1v5 with ease on more than one occasion, but also because I'm glad that it wasn't a great wall o' chat and you got down to the nitty-gritty of it all. You might want to suggest in your opening items along with taking the rejuvenation bead, taking some health pots, wards, or anything else you can afford and why. You might also want to consider going into specific gameplay I.E. laning (either solo-top or bot with AD carry) and give helpful tips and tricks on how to get an edge by using correct skill sequences, and you might even want to post some screen shots for examples. You could also do the same for team fights but rather than trying to look over a messy screen shot you could draw a simple diagram in MS paint or something on positioning and whatnot. And lastly you could go over general information that every summoner should know (basically turn your guide into something comprehensible for a player of any skill level, beginner or advanced) as in Warding, baron and dragon do's and don'ts, when to initiate and when to know you're ****ed, saving people and taking a fall, good team communication etc... But overall very very nice guide. Hope you get to the "Related builds" portion :P

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Ok, some things to think about

1. Condense your runes. Most people can't follow any guide to the letter, and if you have 2-3 kinds of runes for each type, it gets that much more confusing. Choose your preference, and include the others as alternatives.

2. Summoners: Heal is great, teleport is better. Whenever you're laning and you ult, you save whatever lane you went to, but you also leave your own lane completely open. TP will help you get back there so you ulting doesn't cost you a tower.

3. Warmog's is not actually a tank item, imo. You can get plenty of health that comes with resistances along with it. This means you aren't vulnerable to any % health dealer (, , , etc.) If you go with a combo, you will be harder to kill than if you just stack health. That's what the commenter was getting at, albeit in a rather unhelpful way.

4. Skills: Maxing your q first is good, and of course getting ult when possible. Balancing your shield and your taunt at the same time is not efficient though. Your taunt does a bit more dmg as you level it up, but your shield also grows. Cooldown never determines when you can taunt in a fight, it's always energy. Even if your taunt is ready much more frequently because you leveled it up, you still won't be able to use it more often. Leveling your W actually recharges your nrg faster, because it procs your passive quicker.

5. Minor little detail, but your sig says "life", but the quote is "light". An easy fix.

All in all, this guide has a lot of potential. I'll keep an eye on it, and if you can improve it some, I'll be happy to upvote it.

Edit: oh, and turn on comments to vote. You don't want to be trolled for no reason.

I suppose the rune's is an easy fix, but this guide is just based off of what I use. You could fully balance everything out between health runes and magic defense, yet everything in the runes has a full purpose in game. I will most definitely make a note for optional runes.

I use heal just based on the way I play, I spend more time in lane then I do going back so that I don't worry about the travel time. I can hold a lane and back when they do, weather I'm solo or supporting. Yet again though, it's preference to the player, and I will make a note of it in that section.

Great idea on the Warmog's though, I like it for the extra health regeneration, but replacing it with a Randuin's early game would probably be very effective. I will love to change that one.

I've actually meant to go back and fix the skills, I did it based on memory and I realized I was wrong on it. I only go 1 onto my ult at level 6, then level 12. I like for my Q to be leveled up mostly for the use of the health regeneration for supporting, and the poke damage for a solo lane. The second thing I always level up is Shadow dash, because of it's easy damage output and so long as you use it sparingly and hit your target, you wont have to worry about your loss of energy. I find myself using my shield so little that I almost forget about it until I'm back into a lane.

And great catch on the sig, I thought I had put light before, so thanks for catching that.

Hopefully this explains some things, and based on your review it's very helpful, so I will go ahead and fix everything I planned right now. Once more, thank you so much.

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Ok, some things to think about

1. Condense your runes. Most people can't follow any guide to the letter, and if you have 2-3 kinds of runes for each type, it gets that much more confusing. Choose your preference, and include the others as alternatives.

2. Summoners: Heal is great, teleport is better. Whenever you're laning and you ult, you save whatever lane you went to, but you also leave your own lane completely open. TP will help you get back there so you ulting doesn't cost you a tower.

3. Warmog's is not actually a tank item, imo. You can get plenty of health that comes with resistances along with it. This means you aren't vulnerable to any % health dealer (, , , etc.) If you go with a combo, you will be harder to kill than if you just stack health. That's what the commenter was getting at, albeit in a rather unhelpful way.

4. Skills: Maxing your q first is good, and of course getting ult when possible. Balancing your shield and your taunt at the same time is not efficient though. Your taunt does a bit more dmg as you level it up, but your shield also grows. Cooldown never determines when you can taunt in a fight, it's always energy. Even if your taunt is ready much more frequently because you leveled it up, you still won't be able to use it more often. Leveling your W actually recharges your nrg faster, because it procs your passive quicker.

5. Minor little detail, but your sig says "life", but the quote is "light". An easy fix.

All in all, this guide has a lot of potential. I'll keep an eye on it, and if you can improve it some, I'll be happy to upvote it.

Edit: oh, and turn on comments to vote. You don't want to be trolled for no reason.

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Got enough health there?!?!?! :D

Working on it :D

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Got enough health there?!?!?! :D

True Shen - He is a flippin ninja.

True Shen - He is a flippin ninja.

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