Talk:Shen/@comment-183.89.117.114-20110513164257/@comment-14.198.129.239-20110516061101

Prepare yellow armor runes, blue MR runes, and health quints. Start with a health crystal. Upgrade it to HoG and buy boots. Get another HoG for more gold. Upgrade boots to Merc Treads. Depending on enemy team, you may want a early negatron cloak here. If not, get Sunfire Cape for farming and health, followed by QSS for MR and its active. If the situation allows, finish Randuin's Omen for large team fights.

While most of the defensive items are good, Warmog and FoN are not effective tank items on Shen IMO. Both items are expensive, Shen cannot afford them usless well farmed. Warmog doesn't provide enough effective health without armor/MR, and Shen don't have much chance to farm up that extra 450 health. Furthermore, as a tank in the frontline, health regen does not provide much survivability. So FoN is just too expensive for stacking MR. QSS+2 Null-Magic Mantle is cheaper, and can build into Merc Treads and GA. Only take them when other core items are finished.

When ultimate is up, go split farming for more exp, a tank dies a lot. If not, stick with your teammates. With AoE tuant, helping a gank > saving teammates >>> attack. Level up his taunt first, save energy for taunt and ulti, attack only when there is excess energy available. Make sure you targeted their carries to taunt, quality > quantity. Also, ulti (and teleport) could be used to gang, don't limit its use just to saving teammates.

TL;DR: Shen is still a top tier tank of the game. Map awareness FTW. BTW Shen needs a good friendly carry to function well...