Talk:Shen/@comment-5218032-20130611140421

I found him the most indefinited champion in the game. His skills scale with AP. He needs cooldown reduction to ensure his ultimate and taunt is ready when needed. He also needs HP to be able to deal some decent amount of damage 1v1 with his passive,and also Attack Speed to increase his benefit from it. Armor and magic resist are mostly necessary too.

Some people overrate/underrate Shen. Sure,in Season 2 he was easy as hell to play,when there was Heart of Gold,FoN,a better Warmog,and less cooldown on Shadow Dash. He was indestructible from early to mid game going full tank. In Season 3 i found more and more people building ability power on him,which isn't a bad thing on him,since his skills are all AP,but i don't think it's always the right choce.

tl;dr There's no core build on him anymore,the whole champion is situational,every item on him is just merely situational,and that's why he became harder to play. It's like making a build to constantly counter my enemies rather than building to improve his capabilities. And that's not a bad thing,only unusual,compared to other champions.