Welcome everyone to the Shen Champion Spotlight presented by Riot Games.
I'm phreak and I'll show you how I play Shen.
There are other play styles but this video details mine.
Shen is a ninja adept at getting in and out of battles and distracting enemies.
As a ninja, Shen follows 3 basic rules:
One, Shen is a mammal; two, Shen fights all the time; three, the purpose of Shen is to
flip out and kill people.
Over the course of this video, I will show you how to play tank Shen.
I try to build him with a lot of hit points, maxing out the damage output of his Ki Strike
passive, and making the most of Shadow Dash's taunt.
There are a couple of ways you can go with your runes.
I'm using flat hitpoints on marks, hitpoints pro-level on seals, flat cooldown reductions
on glyphs and flat hitpoints again on quintessences.
You can easily change seals to armor or dodge, glyphs to magic resist, marks to cooldowns
or any other defensive stat, but because Shen only has 1 direct damage ability, I don't
really recommend magic penetration.
For masteries, I always like to run 21 points in defense on all melee champions, which lets
me run to battles very early and stay alive through them.
I splash 9 points in offense so I can get improved exhaust, cooldown reductions and
a little bit of increased damage to minions.
Vorpal blade is an amazing laning tool.
I regenerate massive amounts of health from tagging a minion and swinging at it a few times.
So it's good to fight all the time as long as you're careful.
However, I overextend and Poppy comes swinging for me. As soon as I can I start running down
and once I cross my minion wave I use shadow dash, taunting her and running through my minions.
Once she gets low I toss a Vorpal blade, flip out and kill her.
I Shadow Dash on to Kassadin to try to pick him off with our Heimerdinger but unfortunately
we don't quite have enough damage to kill him.
Suddenly Anivia and Ezreal show up and I have to make my escape.
I try to Stand United with our card master but he gates out right as I try to click on
him.
Instinctively, I exhaust Ezreal and then find Nidalee to light my teleport.
Notice how the shield breaks and my health starts dropping right as I teleport out.
The ultimate is a great escaping tool but it comes at the price of a very long cooldown.
I meet up with my team near the dragon.
I Shadow Dash forward to try to pick off Poppy, but Ghost gets her out of harm's way.
Evelynn has been taunted though so she becomes an easy kill as she blindly follows me around.
Ezreal tries to mess with us but Shadow Dash turns him into an easy kill.
As we push on top lane, our enemies come at us.
Shadow Dash allows us to focus Poppy for some heavy damage and then Jax chases her for the kill.
However, he's taking so much damage I have to act quickly and use stand united to keep him alive.
He survives long enough to kill Poppy and escapes to the south.
Poppy attacks me from the brush as though she was some kind of ninja.
So as payment, I flip out and kill her with my teammate Jax.
Shadow Dash results in Kassadin getting very low and as we chase, my ninja instincts allow
me to dodge Ezreal's ultimate.
A perfect Shadow Dash gets Kassadin and Anivia killed, so I teleport home safe and sound.
I see that our Card Master is in trouble so I Stand United with him, allowing him to survive
through the initial damage burst.
I spam Feint to tank for my team but after some initial fighting, Poppy finally chases down Card Master.
However, once Diplomatic Immunity wears off, Heimerdinger's turret and I kill her.
I regroup with my team to kill Kassadin and Anivia once more and then a perfect shadow
dash picks off Ezreal.
Here I aim to prove that Shen is in fact more ninja than Evelynn.
We see each other in mid but Evelynn gets scared.
She tries to Shadow Walk but Shen is so ninja he can actually make people leave stealth
at whim with Shadow Dash.
We're trying to chase our opponents across the map and because of the energy system I
can use Shadow Dash simply to run across the map faster.
The cooldown comes up very quickly and I use it to ensure we kill Evelynn.
The whole time I'm also able to spam Feint so that I don't die.
Thanks for watching the Shen Champion Spotlight.
You'll be totally ninja in no time.