Talk:Shen/@comment-87.206.165.242-20101027071433

I play Shen as my main. I am not the best player in game but I can play pretty well as tank. And there is nothing like "best build" - it always depends on oposite team; you should not mindless copy item list, but counter enemy champions. Get MR if they are mostly magical damage dealers and armor if they are melee. Get a thornmail vs a.speed autoatack champions. Be flexible. And I beg you - leave damage dealing to DPS. You have nice burst damage as tank without any DPS item (Vorpal Blade + Ki strike) only by stacking HP. There is one quite universal build that I use against mixed team: * Mercury's Threads - Speed, MR and shorter CC * Sunfire's Cape - HP, Armor and a little of AOE damage vs minions (without it, you will get money very slowly and Shen is very item dependent) * Banshee's Veil - HP, MR and great shield that prevents initial CC on you

With runes you should have about 130 MR and Armor and about 2.5k HP. Later: * Randuin's Omen - more HP, more than enough armor, CDR and v.good passive * Force of Nature - you should have now more than 200 of resistances, a lot of HP (3k+) and great health regeneration (HP5/s + Vorpal Blade).

Now your efective HP is more than 10k (both, MR & Armor). All together is quite cheap (12k gold). Your Ki strike + vorpal blade is doing noticable damage (because of high health). You are dangerous oponent in team fights because of taunt (and even 1v1 will change to team fligh quickly because of ulti). You have some defense agains CC. You are what you should be: tank that simply cant be ignored, but cant be killed without problems. Last item is not that important, but you may consider a Guardians Angel as last one. Gives you immortality (rises your to about 70% both damage reduction and gives self ressurection).