Shen’s most important ability, especially if you’re a Supporter, is, as you’d expect, his “Shadowfall” (E), which taunts all touched enemies on contact and is therefore the first ability to gain ability points. You can use your Blitz at any time, which allows you to change the location of the contact, for example to increase the range, or change direction to surprise enemies. The interaction with lightning should not be neglected here, as the “shadow fall” is generally quite easy to read and also has a rather short range.

“Ki Barrier” (P) has two abilities: Firstly, Shen has a spirit blade on in the rift, which follows him at a great distance should he stray too far from it. However, he can also draw it towards him by using his “Twilight Attack” (Q) or his “Clenched Hold” (R). If the ghost blade passes through an enemy with the “Twilight Attack”, the enemy is slowed as long as he or she moves away from Shen. The second ability gives Shen a shield after using one of his abilities, and if that ability has affected a champion in any way, usually by dealing damage to an enemy, you reduce the cooldown of that ability so that you get the next shield sooner.

Now that we’ve touched on the Ghost Blade, let’s move on to the ability that interacts with it the most: the “Twilight Attack” (Q). We’ve already mentioned that you slow down enemies that the Ghost Blade passes through, but this also strengthens the “Twilight Attack”. This gives you 3 strong normal attacks when activated, which cause even more damage when boosted and can be used at a fast attack speed. The “Twilight Attack” therefore has 3 basic uses – to deal more damage with normal attacks, to position the spirit blade so that you can move it through an opponent the next time you use it, and finally to give yourself a shield with the “Ki Barrier” (P) if you only want to block damage, as the other abilities have a long cooldown.

An often neglected ability of Shen’s is his “Sanctuary of the Spirit” (W), which generates a small field around the Spirit Blade that negates all normal attacks from enemies on Shen and his team members.

And finally, of course, there’s his “Clenched Hold” (R), with which he gives any teammate in the rift a large shield, no matter where they are, which is even larger if the target has few health points. After a short time, you then teleport to them and place the spirit blade on your own position so that you can also directly negate normal attacks with the “Refuge of the Spirit” (W), for example. The optimal use is therefore to save a teammate or a teammate from death, but you should also make sure that you can use it to help out the team in general, as you can always follow up with a “Shadowfall” (E) and thus CC the enemy to ensure kills on the opponents.