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Shen Build

Support Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 12,538 gamesUpdated

50.4%win rate0.6%pick0.7%ban

Who counters Shen

Every Support matchup for Shen, ranked →

How to build Shen

Plated Steelcaps→Protoplasm Harness→Thornmail→Heartsteel

Plated Steelcaps → Protoplasm Harness → Thornmail → Heartsteel

57.7% win rate 7% of games 331 games
RunesResolveAftershockShield BashSecond WindRevitalizeDominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter37% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite68%
Skills
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Twilight Assault
24578
Spirit's Refuge
314151718
Shadow Dash
19101213
Stand United
61116
StartWorld AtlasHealth PotionHealth PotionWorld Atlas, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Shen build →

Best ADCs for Shen

Who Shen has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst ADCs for Shen

Who Shen has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

50.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.7% over 28,371 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.4% over 12,538 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
48.2%at Emerald+
0.6%pick rate
0.7%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 4 last patch
51.4%under 22 min
50.7%over 32 min

Shen Support gets worse as the elo rises. 50.4% across Silver and above, but 48.2% once you look at Emerald and up. Sites that only sample high elo will show you the second number. Both are real; which one applies depends on the games you are actually playing.

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.

Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Shen champion portraitS Shen+Miss Fortune champion portraitB Miss FortunevsRell champion portraitS Rell+Jinx champion portraitB Jinx
1 / 8 / 9

Build

Celestial OppositionMercury's Treads|Knight's Vow→Locket of the Iron Solari

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQE
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Shen champion portraitS Shen+Kai'Sa champion portraitB Kai'SavsSenna champion portraitS Senna+Ziggs champion portraitB Ziggs
2 / 4 / 14

Build

Celestial OppositionPlated Steelcaps|Locket of the Iron Solari→Protoplasm Harness

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREE
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Shen champion portraitS Shen+Veigar champion portraitB VeigarvsMaokai champion portraitS Maokai+Tristana champion portraitB Tristana
0 / 7 / 12

Build

Celestial OppositionMercury's Treads|Zeke's Convergence

Spells & runes

HealFlash|

Skills

EQWQQREEEER

Runes

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

Most popular 48.9% win rate · 37% of games · 3,860 games
ResolveAftershockShield BashSecond WindRevitalize
DominationCheap ShotUltimate Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.9% win rate · 17% of games · 1,766 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%50.0%8,877 games
  • ExhaustFlashExhaust + Flash20%49.8%2,538 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps50%Mercury's Treads24%Ionian Boots of Lucidity14%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 49.7% win rate
Support item
Celestial Opposition44%Bloodsong29%Solstice Sleigh26%
Celestial Opposition most often · 48.8% win rate

Shen build

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

  1. Heartsteel1st
  2. Thornmail2nd
  3. Protoplasm Harness3rd
3% of games that reach a third item take this path63.7% win rate146 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Shen →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 12,600 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
49% · 50.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
23% · 52.0% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
14% · 52.7% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
7% · 52.6% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 43.1% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 44.9% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Heartsteel+Plated Steelcaps5% of games · 42.8% win rate · 685 games
  2. Heartsteel›Thornmail+Plated Steelcaps5% of games · 47.7% win rate · 614 games
  3. Heartsteel+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 40.1% win rate · 294 games
  4. Heartsteel+Boots2% of games · 42.3% win rate · 248 games
  5. Heartsteel›Thornmail+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 56.2% win rate · 210 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. The best and worst ADCs are ranked the same way, against Shen's average instead of 50%.

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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