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Shen Build

Jungle Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 3,969 gamesUpdated

50.6%win rate0.2%pick0.7%ban

Who counters Shen

How to build Shen

Plated Steelcaps→Protoplasm Harness→Dusk and Dawn→Unending Despair

Plated Steelcaps → Protoplasm Harness → Dusk and Dawn → Unending Despair

60.7% win rate 7% of games 173 games
RunesResolveGuardianShield BashConditioningOvergrowthSorceryAxiom ArcanistTranscendence38% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite96%
Skills
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Twilight Assault
13457
Spirit's Refuge
1314151718
Shadow Dash
2891012
Stand United
61116
StartScorchclaw PupHealth PotionScorchclaw Pup, Health Potion
Full Shen build →
50.6%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.8% over 9,356 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.6% over 3,969 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.6%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
0.7%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
51.5%under 22 min
52.1%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 5–10m
MASTER+
Shen champion portraitJ ShenvsNocturne champion portraitJ Nocturne
2 / 1 / 2

Build

Scorchclaw Pup|

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

QEWQQR
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Shen champion portraitJ ShenvsShyvana champion portraitJ Shyvana
6 / 9 / 10

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingPlated Steelcaps|Dusk and Dawn→Titanic Hydra→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

QEQWQRQEQEREEWWRW
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Shen champion portraitJ ShenvsNocturne champion portraitJ Nocturne
5 / 5 / 12

Build

Mosstomper SeedlingPlated Steelcaps|Zeke's Convergence→Frozen Heart→Jak'Sho, The Protean

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

QEQWQRQWQWRWWEERE

Runes

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

Most popular 50.8% win rate · 38% of games · 1,173 games
ResolveGuardianShield BashConditioningOvergrowth
SorceryAxiom ArcanistTranscendence
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health
Runner up 48.8% win rate · 13% of games · 414 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

Flash + Smite — 96% of games, 50.8% win rate. No real variation.

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps48%Mercury's Treads32%Ionian Boots of Lucidity10%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 51.1% win rate
Jungle pet
Mosstomper Seedling60%
6 of 10 recent games started Mosstomper Seedling

Shen build

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

  1. Unending Despair1st
  2. Protoplasm Harness2nd
  3. Abyssal Mask3rd
3% of games that reach a third item take this path56.5% win rate69 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Shen →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 4,049 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
47% · 51.2% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
31% · 49.5% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
9% · 58.3% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 43.4% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
3% · 52.5% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 51.6% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Titanic Hydra›Dusk and Dawn+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 40.0% win rate · 75 games
  2. Unending Despair›Protoplasm Harness+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 48.6% win rate · 72 games
  3. Titanic Hydra+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 32.8% win rate · 67 games
  4. Dusk and Dawn›Titanic Hydra+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 39.7% win rate · 63 games
  5. Protoplasm Harness+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 44.3% win rate · 61 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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