Shen

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Support

With Balanced Steps

Aggressive lane support and dueling power.

Resolve

Durability and crowd control

Aftershock

After immobilizing an enemy champion gain defenses and later deal a burst of adaptive damage around you.
Font of Life

Impairing the movement of an enemy champion marks them. Your allies heal when attacking champion's you've marked.
Second Wind

Restore health over time based on your missing health.
Overgrowth

Every 8 monsters or enemy minions that die near you permanently increases your max health by 0.2%.

Inspiration

30-270 health (at levels 1-18)

Future’s Market

You can enter debt to buy items.
Magical Footwear

You get free boots at 10 min. but you cannot buy boots before then. These boots give additional MS. For each takedown you acquire the boots 30s sooner.

WhyAftershock

Aftershock on Shen support makes him an incredibly strong threat in 2v2 lane fights where you're able to land your [E].

The bonus explosion damage, resists, and [Q] empowered autos make Shen a high damage version of Alistar.

WhySecond Wind

Second Wind doubles down on Shen's lane skirmishing. The mid-fight health sustain paired with your passive shield makes Shen difficult to lose a trade when a taunt is successfully landed.

WhyOvergrowth

Overgrowth's potential massive health scaling synergizes well with Shen's health ratios on passive shield and [E] damage.

WhyFuture’s Market

Future's Market on supports allows you to hit early game item powerspikes that much sooner on your limited gold income.

WhyMagical Footwear

Magical Footwear is a great rune choice on just about any champion largely for its raw gold value with no input. Think of it as effectively gaining a kill's worth of gold at 10min.