How to win lane as Shen against Locke · 53.47% win rate over 864 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Shen | Your level-1 empowered Q on-hits and durability beat his early poke. |
| Level 2 | Shen | At 2 your Q slow lets you force melee trades that he loses. |
| Level 3 | Shen | Level 3 Spirit's Refuge negates his Silver Stake procs in every all-in. |
| Levels 4-5 | Shen | Through 4-5 your sustain and shields grind down his grey-health steroid. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | At 6 your R execute answer is map pressure against his execute — the fight is even. |
| First item | Even / skill | First-item burst arrives for him, but your W-block keeps the trade a coin-flip. |
| Two+ items | Shen | With items you scale into a tanky global roamer his execute cannot punish. |
Levels 1 through 5 are yours: empowered Q on-hits and your durability beat his poke, the Q slow forces melee trades he loses, and Spirit's Refuge flat-out negates his Silver Stake procs in any all-in. His grey-health steroid just gets ground down by your sustain and shields — keep trading.
The full Shen vs Locke 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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