Support · 206 games

Shen

Support · 22% of games Top · 71%Mid · 3%Jungle · 2%

Strongest when games end at 25–30 minutes (51%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+24 gold).

Win rate: 49.5%; ±6.8 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #31 of 54
Pick rate: 1.1%; ban 0.5%
Games: 206; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Shen support wins 49.5% of 206 ranked games, rank 31 of 54 support champions (tier C). Most players finish Locket of the Iron Solari first, at about 12:48.

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 9:42 · 51% of games

Item 1

Locket of the Iron Solari 12:55 · 28% · 54 games

Item 2

Knight's Vow 21:04 · 60% · 21 games

Item 3 · late game

Protoplasm Harness 27:54 · 10 of 46 games

Runes

Aftershock · Resolve + Domination 12% of games · 56% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 96% of games · 49% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 50% of games · 47% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Shadow Dash first 50% of games · 51% wins Skill orders →

When Shen wins

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

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

Ends before 25′51% wins43% of games · 89

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins53% of games · 110

Lanes

Watch out for Nautilus, Leona, Pyke

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

What wins Shen games

First Baron: 88% against 31%

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

First Baron 31% 88% +56

First tower 29% 71% +42

Rift Herald 38% 64% +26

First dragon 39% 62% +22

First blood 47% 51% +4

First Voidgrubs 48% 50% +2

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 control wards, more multikills

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

More control wards a game7.19 against 5.74 · +25%

More multikills a game0.11 against 0.09 · +22%

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

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 ~12:48

Item 2done ~21:06

Item 3done ~28:24

Item 4done ~32:06

Most common full builds

Zeke's Convergence › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Knight's Vow › Locket of the Iron Solari 50.0%6 games

Locket of the Iron Solari › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Zeke's Convergence › Protoplasm Harness 50.0%4 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Locket of the Iron Solari › Knight's Vow › Protoplasm Harness 50.0%4 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

Zeke's Convergence 80%15

Knight's Vow 50%18

Locket of the Iron Solari 50%14

Protoplasm Harness 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 Potion49.0%198

Health Potion + Health Potion + Health Potion66.7%3

Health Potion100.0%1

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~9:4250.9%106

Plated Steelcaps ~15:4260.4%48

Mercury's Treads ~15:3047.1%34

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal46.6%103

Flash + Ignite55.3%85

Exhaust + Flash38.9%18

Skills

Max

W51.0%104

Max

W49.5%99

Start

W47.5%183

Start

W60.0%15

Hard lanes

Watch out for Nautilus, Leona, Pyke

Easy lanes

Good into Rell

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 5 of 8, wins 3 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 (14)

Bard 67% · 9

Blitzcrank 86% · 7

Braum 50% · 6

Rakan 60% · 5

Milio 60% · 5

Poppy 60% · 5

Janna 25% · 4

Nami 100% · 4

Karma 25% · 4

Seraphine 50% · 4

Yuumi 50% · 4

Sona 33% · 3

Soraka 67% · 3

Zilean 33% · 3

Shen vs Leona · 21 games · Fair sample

Shen does worse than expected here

38%winsexpected 48%

−147gold at 15′average +24

+0.4minions at 10′ahead or behind

33%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.10 a game

Gold lead against Leona Shen's average lead

Against Leona, Shen is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 55% of games, and still wins 36% of those. When ahead, Shen wins 33%.

Ahead at 15′33% wins9 games

Behind at 15′36% wins11 games

Full Shen vs Leona page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Shen games: Kai'Sa

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Lee Sin81% · exp. 50% +3121 games

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble

Kai'Sa35% · exp. 50% −1517 games

Easier

Jhin60% · exp. 52% +825 games

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, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Shen dies 2.6 times a game (average 2.6). 50% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 47% for the average support. 7% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.6deaths per game before 14′about average (2.6)

50%involve the enemy junglermore than average (47%)

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

22%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: 36% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 49% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 41% 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 50% (avg 47%)Collapse 43% (avg 43%)1-v-1 7% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Shen Average

Bot laner 43% (avg 41%)Jungler 24% (avg 25%)Support 16% (avg 14%)Mid laner 13% (avg 15%)Top laner 5% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Shen Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00. 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 their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

Before 14 minutes: 0.7 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.3 in your half of bot lane. Overall 0.5 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.3 K/D 74 / 215

Their half of bot lane 0.7 K/D 93 / 128

The bot-side river 0.5 K/D 28 / 57

Your jungle 0.5 K/D 17 / 31

Their jungle 0.6 K/D 14 / 23

The top-side river 0.7 K/D 12 / 18

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 47% of their team's dragon takes (average support 48%). The team wins 68% when Shen is there and 71% 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 51% against 44%; for Shen it is 50% against 47%.

Shen

What most Shen players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Watch out for Nautilus, Leona, Pyke

First Baron: 88% against 31%

More control wards, more multikills

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

Watch out for Nautilus, Leona, Pyke

Good into Rell

Ahead at 15 against 5 of 8, wins 3 of them

Shen does worse than expected here

Shen does better than expected here

About what you would expect

Shen does worse than expected here

Shen does better than expected here

About what you would expect

Shen does worse than expected here

Shen does worse than expected here

Enemies that cost Shen games: Kai'Sa

Teammates that change Shen's games

Dies about as often as most supports, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Shen

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of bot lane

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

Wins fights in the bot-side river, loses them in your jungle