What is the best build for Shen?

We do not publish a best build for Shen, and the reason is worth thirty seconds. The most recorded Shen top build on patch 16.14 is Dusk and Dawn, Bandlepipes and Titanic Hydra, in 67 games. A finished item set is read at the end of the game, so a build only appears once the game ran long enough to buy it, and a game that runs long is usually a game you were winning. Any share of wins taken from those games leans high for that reason on its own, which is why there is not one in this answer. The page lists every recorded build with the games behind it.

What are the best runes for Shen?

The most recorded Shen top rune page on patch 16.14 takes Grasp of the Undying out of Resolve, with Shield Bash, Second Wind and Overgrowth beside it and Biscuit Delivery and Approach Velocity out of Inspiration. Players who ran it won 50.6% of 959 games, range 47.4% to 53.7%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Shen build, patch 16.14

Q: What skill order should I use on Shen?

Recorded Shen top players max Q, then E, then W. 391 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 100% of 387 Q-first games and 100% of 4 E-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

2,547 games of Shen recorded on patch 16.14, across top, support, jungle, mid and bot.

Win rate

50.5% of top games this patch

Pick rate

1.9% of top games

Games

1,456 top, patch 16.14

Rank in role

20 of 122 top champions

Win impact against the average top pick on patch 16.14: +0.2 wins per 100 games (range -1.4 to 1.9) 1,456 games Pooled

What most Shen top players build, patch 16.14

Build Dusk and Dawn, Bandlepipes and Titanic Hydra, and run Grasp of the Undying

The rune page they run

Resolve

Grasp of the Undying

Inspiration

Shards

959 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 391 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W. The level by level count.

67 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent 57% (range 45-68) · 67 games · Measured

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Shen top is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 1,456 games, of which 736 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: top, support and jungle, the roles that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins 0.2 per 100 vs the top average · 1,456 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (1,339 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (-1.0, range -13.4 to +11.4)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Shen players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Shen, top

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 2 of them cleared 30 games.

Dusk and Dawn, Bandlepipes and Titanic Hydra
56.7% 67 games
Dusk and Dawn, Thornmail and Titanic Hydra
51.5% 33 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

Shen, support

5 item sets were recorded in this role and 2 of them cleared 30 games.

Protoplasm Harness, Zeke's Convergence and Locket of the Iron Solari
62.2% 37 games
Protoplasm Harness, Knight's Vow and Locket of the Iron Solari
51.4% 35 games

Shen, jungle

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No jungle build recorded yet

We have 91 games of Shen jungle on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

What runes do most Shen players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Shen, top

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 3 of them cleared 30 games.

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Inspiration

959 games

Resolve

Grasp of the Undying

Inspiration

Shards

959 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Domination

418 games

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Precision

31 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Grasp of the Undying: 50.6% 1,431 games

5 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Shen, support

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 4 of them cleared 30 games.

Aftershock Resolve with Domination

451 games

Resolve

Aftershock

Domination

Shards

451 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Aftershock Resolve with Inspiration

225 games

Hail of Blades Domination with Resolve

121 games

Hail of Blades Domination with Inspiration

40 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Aftershock: 48.8% 680 games
Hail of Blades: 50.9% 169 games
Guardian: 50.8% 63 games
Grasp of the Undying: 57.7% 52 games

5 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Shen, jungle

8 complete pages were recorded in this role and 1 of them cleared 30 games.

Guardian Resolve with Sorcery

55 games

Resolve

Guardian

Sorcery

Shards

55 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Guardian: 47.7% 65 games

4 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max Q, then E, then W

391 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 100% of 387 Q-first games and 100% of 4 E-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

not enough games

Shen top skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 391 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Almost nobody maxed E first, so there is nothing to compare. -1 wins per 100 games (range -12 to 10) 391 games Measured 387 games maxed Q first, 4 games maxed E first.

Max Q, then E, then W

222 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 98% of 123 Q-first games and 75% of 99 E-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

too close

Shen support skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 222 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q		Q		Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E	E							E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Maxing Q and maxing E are too close to separate. +0.7 wins per 100 games (range -9.2 to 10.6) 194 games Measured 120 games maxed Q first, 74 games maxed E first.

No measured difference between maxing Q and E first, 194 games.

Shen, jungle

Not enough jungle level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 20 games so far, this needs 30.

Shen jungle has 91 games recorded, but only 20 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Shen top build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Titanic Hydra: 13:34 300 games
Dusk and Dawn: 13:50 498 games
Bandlepipes: 22:46 305 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Shen?

The opponents Shen top loses to most and the teammates Shen gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

114 more opponents sit under 50 games against Shen and are counted, not ranked. Every measured Shen opponent, with the full table

Best teammates

Every measured Shen teammate, with the full table

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Shen rank?

Every role we recorded Shen in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Shen by role

top B +0.2 wins per 100 games (range -1.4 to 1.9) 1,456 games Pooled: 51 1,456 games
support B -0.1 wins per 100 games (range -1.8 to 1.7) 971 games Pooled: 48 971 games
jungle C -0.4 wins per 100 games (range -2.5 to 1.8) 91 games Pooled: 43 91 games
mid not enough games yet. 27 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 27 games
bot not enough games yet. 2 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 2 games

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Shen

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.