Talk:Shen/@comment-24971427-20180919013338/@comment-28977071-20180924142053

@Double Slap: is indeed a great suggestion, I think it's also in my generic ' bruiser' item set (but I'm too lazy to check:B ). Bruisers really like mobility (actually, who does not..).

@SionPrime: Eh, I'm curious about the results too, but don't expect miracles from that experiment, going such way in a regular draft should be an extremely rare and marginal case. Planning on building bruiser  beforehand can be mostly fruitful in 14All, ARAM, other exotic game modes or at very least a blind pick. Imo usefulness of this build path is quite low in drafts, most of the time there should be a stronger move (unless ofc you care more about fun, in which case it's fine..).

Split-push can be obviously enhanced via items and less via runes too (even in his regular roles, he has little innate split-push power without items after all). Items like and  offer what one needs, when needed. If that is still not enough for you, the latter one also has synergies with and.

Also, if you're saying that you were being too squishy, then imho you weren't building a bruiser, but a (a "fighter" in my old-fashioned slang). As mentioned in very first response, as for me a bruiser should not build more than a single purely offensive item. I see a bruiser as a tanky guy who can still quite hurt a single opponent badly, thus doing fine in 1vs1, and still surviving in 1vsN. In other words, 1vs1 offense, but 1vsN defense.

In duels a bruiser does well, being hard to kill while inflicting a hurtful dmg. And in teamfights he can be a threat for a single squishy at one time, while still being capable of sustaining lots of frontline dmg. That's at least my personal understanding of a 'bruiser', our conceptions might differ..

And there are obviously runes. While Domination has some really alluring runes inside for the, I'm not really sure if he could afford to give up on Resolve as primary. There are some great tanky runes in here and it's hard for me to believe that you were "too squishy" using those.

Again, imo a bruiser should still focus on def, building just so much dmg to be a kill threat to a single squishy target at one time.