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Shen Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 32,113 gamesUpdated

50.7%win rate1.4%pick0.7%ban

Who counters Shen

Every Top matchup for Shen, ranked →

How to build Shen

Plated Steelcaps→Titanic Hydra→Dusk and Dawn→Thornmail

Plated Steelcaps → Titanic Hydra → Dusk and Dawn → Thornmail

59.2% win rate 13% of games 2,025 games
RunesResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindOvergrowthInspirationApproach VelocityBiscuit Delivery28% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite68%
Skills
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Twilight Assault
14578
Spirit's Refuge
314151718
Shadow Dash
29101213
Stand United
61116
StartDoran's HelmHealth PotionDoran's Helm, Health Potion
Full Shen build →
50.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.8% over 73,729 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.7% over 32,113 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.5%at Emerald+
1.4%pick rate
0.7%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 2 last patch
52.2%under 22 min
51.3%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Shen champion portraitT ShenvsVolibear champion portraitT Volibear
6 / 4 / 4

Build

Mercury's Treads|Titanic Hydra→Dusk and Dawn

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWR
Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Shen champion portraitT ShenvsYone champion portraitT Yone
16 / 5 / 14

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Titanic Hydra→Dusk and Dawn→Randuin's Omen→Kaenic Rookern

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Shen champion portraitT ShenvsYone champion portraitT Yone
5 / 6 / 22

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Sunfire Aegis→Abyssal Mask→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREEWWRW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 52.5% win rate · 28% of games · 8,495 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindOvergrowth
InspirationApproach VelocityBiscuit Delivery
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.4% win rate · 28% of games · 8,435 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingShield BashSecond WindRevitalize
DominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite68%51.3%22,318 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport28%49.6%9,261 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps61%Mercury's Treads30%Boots4%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 51.5% win rate

Shen build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Titanic Hydra1st
  2. Dusk and Dawn2nd
  3. Thornmail3rd
7% of games that reach a third item take this path61.3% win rate1,035 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Shen →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 31,829 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
60% · 52.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
30% · 51.1% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 41.8% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
3% · 55.8% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
2% · 56.1% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 47.6% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Titanic Hydra+Plated Steelcaps6% of games · 42.5% win rate · 2,044 games
  2. Titanic Hydra›Dusk and Dawn+Plated Steelcaps6% of games · 51.6% win rate · 1,777 games
  3. Titanic Hydra›Dusk and Dawn+Mercury's Treads3% of games · 53.5% win rate · 882 games
  4. Titanic Hydra+Mercury's Treads3% of games · 38.9% win rate · 846 games
  5. Titanic Hydra›Thornmail+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 43.3% win rate · 760 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Shen against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Shen's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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