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League of Legends Shen Build Guide

Here is a post about Shen champion from League of Legends. You will find brief information with tips and tips on how to play Shen. Read our Shen build and cheat sheet. In our League of Legends builds you will see the most popular and universal variation of any build.

All League of Legends Shen Skins

Among the secretive, Ionian warriors known as the Kinkou, Shen serves as their leader, the Eye of Twilight. He longs to remain free from the confusion of emotion, prejudice, and ego, and walks the unseen path of dispassionate judgment between the spirit realm and the physical world. Tasked with enforcing the equilibrium between them, Shen wields blades of steel and arcane energy against any who would threaten it.

The Eye of Twilight Shen is one of the most popular champions in LoL. His main role is tank and you will see him on the top lane. Every champion in League of Legends has its uniqueness determined by his skills.

Passive
Ki Barrier

After casting a spell, Shen gets a shield. Affecting other champions reduces the cooldown of this effect.

Q
Twilight Assault

Shen recalls his spirit blade to attack with it, dealing damage based on the target’s max health. The attacks are greatly empowered if it collides with an enemy champion, and all collided enemies are slowed while running away from Shen.

W
Spirit’s Refuge

Attacks that would hit Shen or his allies near his spirit blade are blocked.

E
Shadow Dash

Shen dashes in a direction, taunting enemies in his path.

R
Stand United

Shen shields target allied champion from incoming damage, and soon after teleports to their location.

Counter Picks and Shen’s Win Rate

It is great when you know how to play a champion. But much in LoL depends on counter picks. On the stage when you choose and ban champions you should ban the ones that can counter Shen and vice versa if you see that Shen is strong against the enemy team’s carry you’ll need to pick Shen.

Some players prefer to know the win and lose rate of the champion before trying to play him. You can see Shen counter picks and win rate in the toolkit via the image above.

Shen Best Build

Below you can see the best build for LoL Shen which is calculated on the average winning builds in the Platinum+ league. All builds that we share automatically update when new changes or patches appear. What you see below is the build for Shen on the top lane.

As you can see from the build above there is mentioned Shen rune set with the best potential for Shen. You can see what runes are main for the character and which are taken for some extra assistance. Also, there are mentioned minor nodes that you can take to play Shen in League of Legends.

Under the rune set, you can see the best summoner spells used with Shen. The overall tier for the champion is mentioned just next to the summoner spells.

As for the best item set, you can see starting items. These are the items that you need to buy at the start of the game before you go on your lane. Next to it, there are early items, later you will upgrade them to the whole items for Shen build. Finally, you can see Mythical and Core items that you’ll need to focus on to win the game.

Skill order or skill priorities are very important in the game so that you will start winning the lane before you buy any powerful items. The skill priority and order for Shen is mentioned under the items. Skill order shows what skill you should upgrade on every level.