Shen·Jungle Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Shen Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Hail of Blades as your keystone, followed by Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection and Relentless Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Move Speed in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Redemption as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Locket of the Iron Solari. For your last 3 items, you should build Moonstone Renewer, Knight's Vow and finish with Sunfire Aegis. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 48.9% winrate over 221 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Shield Bash, Second Wind and Revitalize in the primary tree, and Cheap Shot with Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Heartsteel as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Sunfire Aegis as a third item. You want to finish the build with Thornmail, Titanic Hydra and Riftmaker. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 48.0% win rate across 50 matches played.

Situational Shen Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Shen build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.