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Community rank
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Where players rank Shen on the community tier list. One vote per account.
– net score
Classic loadouts
Builds for Shen
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Abilities
P
Ki Strike
Every 9 seconds, Shen's next basic attack restores 10 / 20 / 30 Energy and deals an addtional 8 magic damage. Each time Shen attacks a minion or champion, Shen's passive Cooldown is reduced by 1 second.
Q
Vorpal Blade
Shen throws a vorpal blade, dealing 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 magic damage to target unit, marking them for 5 seconds. Allied spells and attacks against this target heal them for 6 / 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 over 3 seconds. Killing an enemy with this Ability restores 2 / 3.333 / 4.667 / 6 / 7.333 Health instantly instead. (+60% AP, +1.5% max Health)
+60% AP+1.5% max Health
W
Feint
Shen grants himself 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 Shield for 3 seconds. While this Ability holds, his attacks reduce Ki Strike's Cooldown by an additional 1 second. (+60% AP)
+60% AP
E
Shadow Dash
Shen dashes, Taunting for 1.5 second(s) and dealing 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 magic damage on collision with enemy champions. Taunted champions are forced to attack Shen and deal 50% reduced physical damage. Restores 40 Energy per champion affected. (+50% AP)
50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190+50% AP
R
Stand United
Ultimate
Shen grants an allied champion 250 / 550 / 850 Shield for 5 seconds. After channeling for 3 seconds, Shen Teleports to his ally's location. (+135% AP)
+135% AP
How Shen plays
Editorial Reading of the kit above, not a sourced claim - the numbers inside it were checked against the client before publishing.
Shen is built to be somewhere else on the map and turn a fight the instant he arrives. Vorpal Blade pokes from range and heals him back for part of it, more the worse off his target already is, letting him hold a lane a straight trade shouldn't let him hold. Feint drops a shield that speeds up his passive's cooldown while it's active, so a well-timed one pays for itself twice. Shadow Dash is a taunt with real teeth: whoever it hits is forced to attack him at 50% reduced damage, and it refunds Energy for every champion it catches, so tagging more than one target barely costs him anything. Stand United is the reason he exists on a fight he isn't even standing in yet, a brief channel that ends with him teleporting straight to an ally and dropping a shield the instant he lands, which can flip a losing fight two lanes away before the enemy even sees him coming. Ki Strike quietly keeps his Energy topped up every 9 seconds in the background, and the more he's actually fighting, the faster it comes back.
Counters & matchups
Strong against
Weak against
Plays well with
Shadow Dash and Stand United turn dives across top, jungle, and bot lane; ranged harass (Teemo, Sona) and true damage (Olaf) bypass his Feint shield.
"In lane" means both champions are played in the same role in Classic; "across the map" represents cross-lane dynamics (e.g. jungler ganks, roaming supports). All matchups evaluated strictly within the 63 Classic launch champions.
What Shen's kit scales with
Read from Shen's ability text.
Resource
EnergyMana runes and items do nothing for this champion
Range
Melee125 units
Ability ratios
Q
Vorpal Blade
W
Feint
E
Shadow Dash
R
Stand United
Skins · 14
Catalog and art read directly from the client files (build 362c0c748f7a) - exactly the skins the client lists for Shen, including the Classic throwback skins with their era models. © Riot Games.
Modern vs Classic · 13 tracked changes
Shen
Base Health
610
513
Health per level
99
85
Base Energy
400
200
Base Attack Damage
64
57.875
Base Armor
34
19
Armor per level
4.2
4
Base Magic Resist
32
30
Move Speed
340
335
Base Attack Speed
0.751
0.651
Attack Speed per level
3%
3.4%
Passive name
Ki Barrier
Ki Strike
Q name
Twilight Assault
Vorpal Blade
W name
Spirit's Refuge
Feint
Classic: the Classic client's files · Today: patch 16.14.1.