Talk:Shen/@comment-71.93.124.132-20121125234739/@comment-62.1.167.177-20121202202120

I cannot realistically answer yes or no since there are TONS of numbers/things involved, but Shen's dual-role is extremely specialized and very defense-oriented. A Shen doing high damage to enemies does this in a defensive frame, presenting himself as a super brick-wall.

Regardless, the items you mentioned have specific uses too:


 * Trinity force is a mega-package (even if expensive) which is more or less designed to give offensive superiority to your champion. On a champion like Shen, you could say that it's an expensive item to increase his threat levels due to Sheen-proc damage increase and random slow proc (NOT his killing potential, though).


 * Warmog's is a highly specialized item designed to sky-rocket Health-scaling situations and, unfortunately, that's pretty much its purpose: Pure number synergy, in a defensive form. Also, it's an item that requires you to farm it up successfuly, making it a bad choice for a determined low-farmer. You kinda MUST farm if you buy it.


 * Atma's Impaler is designed to reward Health stacking in an offensive form: You buy more Health, it increases your Attack Damage. It's purpose is not pure number synergy, but it does lack if there is no synergy with items (e.g. Warmog's, Frozen Mallet, 500 Health items, etc).

All in all, if your team needs more damage it's a decent 3-item kit for Shen (but VERY expensive and farm demanding), after all Shen is also a support and he should be supporting his team in this way if they are lacking. However, Shen's defensive priorities make it very unfair for his player to be concerned with pure damage, and a team that absolutely needs a damage-Shen is troll team.