Talk:Shen/@comment-2248060-20130201190014/@comment-4659726-20130202003548

I really like it as an item now without the mana regen but I just don't think it gives any of the stats shen needs to survive. If you are really far ahead I see no problem in getting it but cooldown reduction has a weird effect on energy champs, it lets their skills come up faster but that doesn't mean you will have the energy for it. And you want to have energy for shadow dash to use it a second time in a fight. That doesn't mean you can't use it but I would suggest other more defensive attack speed options for shen before Nashors.

Zephyr gives AD, attack speed, Tenacity, CDR, and movespeed(which is really hard to itemize for now).

And Wit's still gives you that 42 damage on hit (a lot of damage actually) and a max of 40 mr.

I would choose from these two first if you can. I personally go for wits because I build shen for magic damage through his ki strike, wit's, and sunfire. But other alternative builds do exist where you go heavy on the physical damage defense and choose zephyr instead because it lets you get tabi.