I want to know if there's a better alternative than Ultimate Hunter for a Shen play style that revolves around his ult. Basically the way I play Shen I rely a lot on his ult and I want to have it faster.

Weren't they going to release the Classic Shen icon? Or has it already been released?

When starting our jungle on the red side; it is important to ward our blue buff to make sure we're not wasting time in the case of an invade.
After warding, on our way to the good ol' angry buff; at exactly 0:40 we will ''Q'' , or in other words, drag, our blade to us to active our Ki barrier and put it on cooldown; make sure your red is secured.
At exactly 0:50, we will activate out ''Q'' again to ready our blade and start our camp. Then proceed to the raptor, dragging them in a single line to ''E''/Dash through it.
Then we will transition to the blue side; wheter you prefer blue buff, wolves, or even gromp to facilitate an early gank by the lane is up to you after this.

When facing mobile assassins that can kill your carries even through your ult; it is a good idea to ditch an item to get Moonstone Renewer. ( I've linked alittle video for your watching pleasure)

-rivershen

You see, it's very important to at least meditade a whole minute in top bush when both team are going dragon. It helps give the impression that you're doing something, when actually, it's just S.SWeeney

I really do hope you guys stay salty.

For context i started playing the game this year, i play pretty much exclusively Shen and just reached Gold.

I always hear about how strong Shen is in early lane and maybe thats just me being shit at laning but it doesnt really mirror my experience.

Theres so many matchups where the early game is not that great, not sure if its an elo thing but it feels like i encounter Sett, Garen, Teemo or Mordekaiser literally almost every match and i can not dominate the early game against those at all.

I play Shen mid in my last game, I started with a scoreline like 2/1/3. I roamed bot with my ult once and had one kill-less skirmish in the jungle, but otherwise, I never left my lane (except to recall). Yet, the Viktor I was dominating had the same amount of gold as me, even though he was 0/3/0! I run into this issue in many games—even when I win the lane, an 0/3 opponent catches up to me. What should I do to avoid falling behind in gold?

If any of yall wanna drop some hidden ball knowledge would much appreciate, xpetu told me deadmans first into aatrox is the play, I like to add onto that and take magical footwear and move speed rune.

Blah, blah, blah—it was really long, so never mind; check the comments if you want.

Currently experimenting. dusk and dawn into hullbreaker is just insanity yet I never see people build it. Dusk and dawn basically cuts the proc timing of hull breaker to miniscule where you can get many procs off during fights due to haste + attack speed from D&D

I also think especially in jungle since the passive works against epic monsters.

I tried it in a couple of games and it's interesting

Where to begin? What to focus on first?

I’m new-ish to the game and played a lot of Garen but want to branch out and learn Shen.

I’ve played some normals with him but felt completely lost. Maybe some of my garen playstyle tried to takeover and I was sidelining too much

my camera control isnt that great either so it was hard to recognize when to ult.

What are his reference points? When is he strong? Should I be trying to solo kill my opponent level 1? Is it terrible if I am just farming xp and CS til midgame? Is he a roaming champ? Versatile builds?

Is he viable in midlane also or any other position? Thanks!

I am long time player, currently playing toplane with Shen and Ornn (mainly shen) as my champions with an ocasional counterpick. I've always been Gold/silver type of player. I consider my knowledge above those ranks but I've never put any effort on improving as a toplaner or as a player (wave control, mechanics, micro, spacing etc.).

However, this year I decided to try, and with just a change in mentality and huge effort in my laning phase the improvement was clear. I started stomping lane and making plays I always thought I will never be able to do.

A month ago or so I peaked Emerald 2. And without basically changing anything on my playstyle (if so, I became even better because I started used Ornn more, since there are so many teamcomps this elo that benefits from him more than shen) I just started to lose. And lose and lose and getting stomped. Of course, I had my mental breakdowns and I trolled here and there by swaping lanes and all that, but not more than 2 or 3 games a week. Most of the time I just try to reset mental and start again. But I can't find a way. I got down to Emerald 4, got stuck there, then Plat 1, and now plat 2. And I feel how my teams are getting worse and worse but my lanes are just as hard.

I know there is this narrative that losersQ doesn't exist, and is probably right, but such an extreme turn is not natural, is not just 50/50 matchmaking. Either the game wanted to boost me and I am not really Emerald level, or is trying to put me down so I have to play another 200 games, this shit is rigged and is fucked up because I love the game but I can clearly feel something is against us players.

Sorry for the rant, I'll probably just have to quit the damn game.

Petu keeps playing with that skin. I'm thinking of buying it, it came out of the box.

Some people maybe have a hard time to figure out where classic Shen's damage lies. The answer is pretty obvious, it is KI Strike.

This means, your goal is to KI Strike as often as possible to maximise your damage, you want to stack HP and get some attack speed so you have it up sooner. You want to buff your W shield so you can KI Strike even more often.

Here is what I go for my Shen jungle. Reaching 10% CDR from runes and masteries so with Spirit Visage I already hit 30%. Rest attack speed and defense focus.

Items is basically after Spirit Stone you rush Ionic spark for the clearspeed, 50% AS, 250 HP and the lightings to help AoE. Then if snowballing go Leviathan, otherwise Warmog's. You can finish your Spirit of the Acient Golem, but it is rather underwhelming. Spirit Visage and Randuin's give you great resists. You can even go double Warmog's if Leviathan doesn't work out.

i wanted to goof around and not build tank, what kind of items am i looking for? phantom dancer? sundered sky?

Also, fck Eve, fck Akali.

Just played a game with enemy Zed, I saw the quest became active, was watching for him anywhere on the map nearby teammate, ulted in and got assist on takedown of Zed. Quest did not complete.

60 seconds later, my ult on cooldown, he kills my support in the middle of jungle and wins the quest... Frustrating

I love stacking health with heart steel and everything, and then that increases shield and e and titanic hydra damage, but I also love rushing stuff like navori and bandlepipes. I heard proto belt is good idk why tho can someone explain?

So essentially I'm lost on builds. It used to be rather simple before but now idk whether to rush heart steel and start stacking or go for navori/bandlepipes for early advantage.

Help?

Came back to league after years of not playing, and have mostly been playing Shen Top or support. (them xpeke videos got me hooked) He's my favourite champ by far, but solo queue in gold elo just seems impossible to win even when my lane is up, due to a lack of coordination and macro.

I want to keep OT Shen but I feel like low elo favors damage to hard carry. I know there's much I can improve on but, I'm not sure what exactly is holding me back from converting early leads to wins.

Curious what other Shen mains have experienced.

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I have been waiting like 6-7 months and it didn't come. Do you know when will it come. İt is my most wanted thing in league right now.

Hey guys, I'm a Shen lover but Iv mostly been playing him jungle and I pretty much blind him every game. Well I'm thinking about role swapping and I wanna know what you think the best times to pick Shen are? Is it when you have a strong carry top laner? When you have a good weak side adc? When enemy doesn't have mage bottom? Let me know and also let me know the play style if you can ty <3