Talk:Shen/@comment-4918278-20140607180221/@comment-15244341-20140618111915

Trinity has too many wasted stats on Shen. I'd rather pick a Wits End for raw offensive output.

However lately I've been buying Zephyr on him, mostly. 10% CDR, 50% attack speed and Tenacity mean that starting with Cloth+5 pots is not a bad start anymore (since Tabi are a viable pick). It feels pretty nice, I'd recommend trying.

And, BTW, Shen has some serious issues farming fast enough. Sunfire helps him with this while Sheen is pretty much pointless. Buying Triforce delays his tankyness and if you are doing poorly in lane the components build into nothing useful, so no changing build path to adapt to your opponent. So it might be fine late game, but I'd say Shen puts higher priority in expensive tank items than in expensive damage items.