Talk:Shen/@comment-4677525-20121120212756/@comment-4659726-20121121014001

I have considered it, and while it does give AoE shen scales hardest for offense off of attack speed due to his passive and W's interaction with it. Health regen is a fairly useless stat late game unless it is FoN passive health regen. Any other small amounts of it are fairly negligible mid and late. It is a laning stat. The AD is nice but again, shen scales mostly off of attack speed and hp. With AD being the next stat that is important.

You have to consider that Statikk shiv builds out of avarice blade as well. Which has two passives that make shiv actually cheaper than what it seems. First 4gp/10. Second 2 gp for every kill (minion included, TF passive). So say 5 min pass, from the 4gp/10 that is 120 gold. And assuming you get about 35 cs in 5 min. 190 bonus gold just from holding onto the blade. Returns improve the longer you hold onto the blade.

So in short the 200 gold difference is made up by avarice easily within about 5 min. And becomes even more efficient as time goes on since you build gp/10 earlier in the game. Considering Shen scales off of attack speed and hp. Shiv is actually a fairly good item and allows him to have a bit of a unique build. Also gives him movespeed.