Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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 provided here show some valuable Trundle vs. Shen matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Shen..
Trundle usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Shen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Trundle usually wins when facing off against Shen, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Trundle makes a good counter to Shen.
While Trundle does have a higher winrate than Shen, when on opposite teams, Trundle also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Trundle into Shen.
Additionally, Trundle also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Shen matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Trundle is an above average counter for Shen. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Trundle against Shen.
To truly master Trundle in order to counter Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Shen. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Trundle versus Shen build include Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Shen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Trundle had an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against Shen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Shen as Trundle, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Trundle vs Shen LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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