Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
Be ready to dodge Shen's taunt and punish him if he misses.
Once Shen reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, which can turn fights quickly.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several significant Dr. Mundo vs. Shen matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shen..
Dr. Mundo often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Shen. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually loses when facing off against Shen, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Dr. Mundo makes a poor counter for Shen.
While Dr. Mundo does have a lower winrate compared to Shen, when on opposite teams, Dr. Mundo also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Dr. Mundo into Shen.
Moreover, Dr. Mundo has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Dr. Mundo vs Shen matchups, Shen is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Dr. Mundo is a somewhat poor counter for Shen. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Dr. Mundo against Shen.
To learn all of the intricacies of Dr. Mundo to counter Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Shen. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Dr. Mundo versus Shen build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Dr. Mundo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Shen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Dr. Mundo boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when countering Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Shen as Dr. Mundo, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Dr. Mundo vs Shen battles, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Shen as Dr. Mundo are presented for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.