Support · 96 games · KR

Shen

Support · 44% of games Top · 54%

Strongest when games end at 20–25 minutes (48%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−10 gold).

Win rate: 45.8%; ±10.0 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #40 of 53
Pick rate: 1.5%; ban 0.1%
Games: 96; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Shen support wins 45.8% of 96 ranked games in KR, rank 40 of 53 support champions (tier C). Most players finish Protoplasm Harness first, at about 13:06.

The build at a glance

What most Shen players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 8:54 · 53% of games

Item 1

Protoplasm Harness 13:26 · 27% · 25 games

Item 2 · late game

Locket of the Iron Solari 19:36 · 20 of 66 games

Item 3 · late game

Zeke's Convergence 28:48 · 5 of 19 games

Runes

Aftershock · Resolve + Inspiration 16% of games · 53% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 96% of games · 46% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 54% of games · 50% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Shadow Dash first 63% of games · 53% wins Skill orders →

When Shen wins

Best when games end at 20–25′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′52% wins48% of games · 46

Lasts 25′ or more39% wins46% of games · 44

Lanes

Good into Leona

Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Shen games

First Baron: 96% against 26%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 26% 96% +70

First tower 28% 67% +39

Rift Herald 33% 62% +29

First dragon 35% 59% +24

First blood 41% 51% +10

First Voidgrubs 43% 49% +6

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Shen plays

More multikills, less damage to towers

What stands out (10% or more) against the average support. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More multikills a game0.14 against 0.08 · +75%

Less damage to towers798 against 1044 · −23%

About average: deaths, time spent dead, kill participation, share of team damage, gold, assists, damage, solo kills.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~12:36

Item 2done ~21:06

Item 3done ~28:36

Item 4done ~31:06

Most common full builds

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Locket of the Iron Solari › Knight's Vow › Protoplasm Harness 66.7%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Knight's Vow 40%10

Locket of the Iron Solari 40%5

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Health Potion + Health Potion45.7%92

Health Potion + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%1

Health Potion + Health Potion + Health Potion + Control Ward100.0%1

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~8:5445.1%51

Plated Steelcaps ~15:1850.0%18

Mercury's Treads ~15:1258.8%17

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal50.0%52

Flash + Ignite46.2%39

Exhaust + Flash0.0%5

Skills

Max

W53.3%60

Max

W34.3%35

Start

W43.7%87

Start

W66.7%9

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

Good into Leona

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 1 of them

Expected: what Shen's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (11)

Rell 67% · 9

Camille 44% · 9

Bard 63% · 8

Alistar 25% · 8

Thresh 50% · 6

Lulu 20% · 5

Nautilus 50% · 4

Rakan 50% · 4

Pyke 50% · 4

Karma 0% · 3

Blitzcrank 100% · 3

Shen vs Leona · 12 games · Early read

Shen does better than expected here

58%winsexpected 44%

−3gold at 15′average −10

+1.1minions at 10′ahead or behind

33%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.17 a game

Gold lead against Leona Shen's average lead

Against Leona, Shen is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 42% of games, and still wins 80% of those. When ahead, Shen wins 43%.

Ahead at 15′43% wins7 games

Behind at 15′80% wins5 games

Full Shen vs Leona page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most supports

Before 14 minutes Shen dies 2.7 times a game (average 2.7). 52% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average support. 7% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.7deaths per game before 14′about average (2.7)

52%involve the enemy junglerabout average (50%)

93%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (90%)

21%with no teammate nearless than average (26%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Shen dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

Ganks: 34% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 52% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 50% in their half of bot lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average support

What kills Shen

Kind of death

Shen Average

Gank 52% (avg 50%)Collapse 41% (avg 41%)1-v-1 7% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Shen Average

Bot laner 44% (avg 41%)Jungler 25% (avg 27%)Support 12% (avg 14%)Mid laner 14% (avg 15%)Top laner 5% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 2:00–4:00 and 6:00, then every minute

Shen Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 2:00 and 6:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Shen; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Shen wins fights

Wins fights in the bot-side river, loses them in your half of bot lane

Before 14 minutes: 0.8 kills per death in the bot-side river against 0.4 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.6 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.4 K/D 39 / 104

Their half of bot lane 0.7 K/D 45 / 63

The bot-side river 0.8 K/D 17 / 21

Your jungle 0.3 K/D 7 / 21

Their jungle 0.6 K/D 9 / 15

Your half of mid 0.8 K/D 10 / 13

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Shen wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 45% of their team's dragon takes (average support 46%). The team wins 69% when Shen is there and 65% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 10:00 (average 10:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 52% against 42%; for Shen it is 47% against 40%.

Shen

What most Shen players run

Best when games end at 20–25′

Good into Leona

First Baron: 96% against 26%

More multikills, less damage to towers

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

Good into Leona

Behind at 15 against 1 of 1, still wins 1 of them

Shen does better than expected here

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Shen's games

Dies about as often as most supports

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Shen

Ganks come at 2:00–4:00 and 6:00, then every minute

Wins fights in the bot-side river, loses them in your half of bot lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your jungle

Where fights happen