from wiki.
The gold gained from the Greed passive stacks with other on-kill bonus gold abilities and auras such as 
Ashe's 
Hawkshot, 
Gangplank's 
Parrrley, 
Twisted Fate's 
Loaded Dice and the +3 gold from controlling one altar in Twisted Treeline.
Altars?
Here's what I do.
1) Read up guides, many guides fully. Make sure I understand the item choices and why they are chosen. Understand the levelling etc. Remember any useful tricks you pick up in the guides. Ali W+Q, Trist E in rocket jump etc.
2) Play a few bot games with the champ (If you're really diligent play quite a few). Learn the feel of the skillshots, the movespeed and attack range of the champ. Last hitting power etc. Alternatively can do this in custom game with friends.
Maokai? Chogath?
Also try ganking earlier with hecarim, Early ganks with E up actually aren't all that bad provided the laners have some CC.
Amumu (Not as invade prone as one might think) Ultimate wins game, you can't go wrong with % max hp damage. If you land Q, it's almost guaranteed something will be wasted.
Chogath Doesn't matter if you get outjungled hard. You have ranged knockup and true damage ult
Hecarim High damage with Spirit of the Lizard Elder and gamechanging ult. Very tanky with W on.
I think Jarvan is very strong atm now, but I have no experience with him, so it's your risk to believe me or not :)
p.s. lee sucks if you don't manage to get kills/get to lategame (can't really carry)
Same with noc
Quote from ianzzz94 »
- Runic Affinity increases the duration of Blue buff and Red buff from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
Typo?
Edit: Ahh I see, for every 5 secs it turns into 6 secs.
Update: I've tried Zephyr and I feel it is a bit too expensive to fit into the build. Will try locket later.
Also, the point of putting nashor's into my build was because I noticed that before there were sometimes moments where it felt like I could do nothing. After my taunt ended, noone would attack you first (What's the point of being tons of tank, if you can't make people attack you?), you couldn't risk using Q and W too much (out of energy for next taunt) and your taunt took too long to come back up.
From the way I saw it, nashor's tooth solved these problems. Your skills did more damage, I would argue that 50% atk speed gives you quite a big damage boost due to how ki strike works, (I could now chunk squishies down quite quickly if they didn't focus me. And that's what you want as a tank). Also it would simultaneously solve the other 2 problems. It would give cdr so taunt came up quicker and more ki strikes=more energy=more utility.
tldr Taunt comes up 2-3 times more in fights, you can use more skills, ki strike nuke comes far more often.
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Shen is an energy champion. Energy champions by definition have great laning phases for their (energy) sustain, but are controlled by that energy during teamfights/duels. Very rarely will you see energy champions able to spam their abilities in a fight. This is why CDR is not optimal for energy champions. Look at akali, kennen, zed and lee sin. Having lower CDs doesn't allow them to do their job any better. In lane, sure you can harass more, but in teamfights it wont necessarily mean you will get more taunts off.
I see your point, but having tried the build, I find that provided you actually manage to taunt someone, this build allows you to get more ki strikes off and then have more energy, allowing you to spam more. And as said before me, it also reduces cd of ult.
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the tabi passive is better than merc treads IF you are going for any attackspeed items. the amount of damage that it reduces from the enemies adc late game is unbeleivable (10% basic attack damage reduction ~30 armour late game if memory serves me correctly). both items give you the same amount of attackspeed, and therefore the same amount of energy regen, and seeing as shen doesnt scale as well with ap as other tanks (i.e. ammumu, maokai, cho, ect.) the extra ad will increase his dps more. the bonus to his shields is minor since you arent building mass ap and nashors tooth doesnt give you huge ap gains to begin with, they are above average. typically most shen players will be getting locket and/or spirit visage, spirit visage especially gives you a lot of cdr. if you get both and still want another source of cdr then zephyr will max you out. also, the movement speed on zephyr is the highest permanent movespeed modifier that you can get, which really helps out in teamfights both when diving carry and peeling for your own. it also allows you to initiate fights better due to being able to catch up to enemies easier to shadow dash.
I will try locket and zephyr, thanks.
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Because Shen is a tank and wants tank stats?
I think that once you get to a certain point in tankiness, building cdr really helps as you are much more useful if you get more Es out.
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because if you are going to get a stinger upgrade, the tenacity and ms from zephyr is better than the ap from nashors. on top of that, stinger items are only really decent on bruiser shen, which is a suboptimal build path for him anyway, and even so there are better items.
tenacity you can get from mercs and the main reason I build nashor's is the cdr and atk speed (which increases energy regen). If that isn't good enough, could you suggest a better item to replace it?
At the moment, I am not seeing this item built at all on Shen. Comparing the stats with some of the other items available, I can't see why you wouldn't get this eventually (Not rushed ofc). It gives atk speed and cdr and also gives AP which provides some nice bonuses. I get to Ki stike more often (higher burst) and E more often (more CC) and also allows me to use my other skills in a teamfight (more utility) rather than making me conserve most of the energy.
Can someone tell me if it is any good? Preferably with an alternative if it isn't. I normally build Merc Treads, Warmogs, Randuins, Spirit Visage, Sunfire/thornmail as my other items.
Gold and wards never seems to be an issue atm.
Charm+3 wards+2pots works just as well down here. Since coordination with jungler is kinda minimum.
