How to win lane as Locke against Shen · 46.53% win rate over 864 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Shen | Shen-favoured: his level-1 Q on-hits and durability beat your early poke. |
| Level 2 | Shen | Shen-favoured: at 2 his Q slow lets him force trades you lose in melee. |
| Level 3 | Shen | Shen-favoured: level-3 Spirit's Refuge (W) negates your Silver Stake procs in every all-in. |
| Levels 4-5 | Shen | Shen-favoured: through 4-5 his sustain and shields grind down your grey-health steroid. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Skill: at 6 your R execute answers his R's map pressure — the fight is even. |
| First item | Even / skill | Skill: first-item burst arrives for you but his W-block keeps the trade a coin-flip. |
| Two+ items | Shen | Shen-favoured: with items he scales into a tanky global roamer your execute can't punish. |
Shen wins the early exchanges here — respect his level-2/3 Q (Twilight Assault) which slows and hits hard, and never W into him while his Spirit's Refuge is up because it eats every Silver Stake on-hit you rely on. Farm safe, take short trades only when his Q is on cooldown.
The full Locke vs Shen report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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