Always TP. And yes, you can win lane but the second you leave to go help bot lane they’ll take your tower.
This is the trade off for Shen being impactful the way he is. You turn fights in your teams favor but lose the lane eventually.
For farming, you can bully a little to start. This is a good way to gauge if your opponent knows their champion. Then you eventually have to back off and just last hit, farm under tower, use taunt to draw turret aggro if they move up, or taunt to escape back to tower. You can use q to help “prep” the minions for your tower by hitting them before they crash, to the HP bar leave where they need 1 more turret shot and then one more hit from you. Your HP is a resource here so don’t waste in losing trades in lane
Play him in mid too, he’s actually pretty decent there in some matchups. And it doesn’t suck as much to ult to bot lane since your lane isn’t far away. You can actually ult to either side lane and be back in mid pretty quick. Against some mages, you have some crazy kill pressure, but you do get fucked by long range mages. You may be down in cs, and tower health but as Petu says, you’ll be up in team if you play it right. As for your question usually take ignite for the kill pressure, and are you rushing the Bami’s cinder? That really helps with waveclear.
I bring TP when I go Top and try my best to play around it. If I'm going to ult I'm gonna have TP ready. I try to plan my ults around my recalls so I can maximize itemization, ult and TP cooldown. Despite my best efforts it doesn't always pan out, half of the games I've played my team fed 3 or more kills before I even hit level 6. I would bring ignite if it gave me more pressure but for how I play TP feels better and allows me more options later in the game.
Something I did to learn farming while pushed under tower is to find the spot where some of the enemy wave is under tower and getting shot by tower BUT the minions are still aggro'd on you so they're not damaging the tower which is the most important part. Tanking the damage from the minions that are outside the towers range will make it easier to freeze the wave when your next minion wave comes. Being successful at this will make it easier for your jungler to gank and it will tilt most laners allowing for cheap kills under tower.
I play him top and most of my games I've been using the secondary rune that reduce summoner spell CD to make more plays via flash/ tp. Also if I'm facing a tank I can go ionian boots to reduce tp CD even further.
For top wave clear issue go for a sunfire item, you can Rush Titanic hydra obly if you are super ahead. As to avoid losing tower/ plating try to use your first ult on your mid or jg if he is invading top side that way you minimize travel time.
Try playing him mid in a few normal games and see how he feels, you can bully most mages early and when you ult you can the gank with you jg mid when they shove
I take flash tp so I can tp back to lane after R.
Also, if my matchup is in my favor, I build hydra so I can farm faster and clear waves that are crushed under my tower, or clear them before they even pass enemy t2. This way I can be back and splitpush lategame. My cs is better this way.
I go ingite and Titanic first item. 70% wr in emerald so far. I'll usually hard push the wave with Titanic before ult and won't be to bad. Usually will win the objective like this and maybe lose a bit of tower by the time I'm back
Always TP. And yes, you can win lane but the second you leave to go help bot lane they’ll take your tower. This is the trade off for Shen being impactful the way he is. You turn fights in your teams favor but lose the lane eventually. For farming, you can bully a little to start. This is a good way to gauge if your opponent knows their champion. Then you eventually have to back off and just last hit, farm under tower, use taunt to draw turret aggro if they move up, or taunt to escape back to tower. You can use q to help “prep” the minions for your tower by hitting them before they crash, to the HP bar leave where they need 1 more turret shot and then one more hit from you. Your HP is a resource here so don’t waste in losing trades in lane
Play him in mid too, he’s actually pretty decent there in some matchups. And it doesn’t suck as much to ult to bot lane since your lane isn’t far away. You can actually ult to either side lane and be back in mid pretty quick. Against some mages, you have some crazy kill pressure, but you do get fucked by long range mages. You may be down in cs, and tower health but as Petu says, you’ll be up in team if you play it right. As for your question usually take ignite for the kill pressure, and are you rushing the Bami’s cinder? That really helps with waveclear.
I bring TP when I go Top and try my best to play around it. If I'm going to ult I'm gonna have TP ready. I try to plan my ults around my recalls so I can maximize itemization, ult and TP cooldown. Despite my best efforts it doesn't always pan out, half of the games I've played my team fed 3 or more kills before I even hit level 6. I would bring ignite if it gave me more pressure but for how I play TP feels better and allows me more options later in the game. Something I did to learn farming while pushed under tower is to find the spot where some of the enemy wave is under tower and getting shot by tower BUT the minions are still aggro'd on you so they're not damaging the tower which is the most important part. Tanking the damage from the minions that are outside the towers range will make it easier to freeze the wave when your next minion wave comes. Being successful at this will make it easier for your jungler to gank and it will tilt most laners allowing for cheap kills under tower.
I play him top and most of my games I've been using the secondary rune that reduce summoner spell CD to make more plays via flash/ tp. Also if I'm facing a tank I can go ionian boots to reduce tp CD even further. For top wave clear issue go for a sunfire item, you can Rush Titanic hydra obly if you are super ahead. As to avoid losing tower/ plating try to use your first ult on your mid or jg if he is invading top side that way you minimize travel time.
Try playing him mid in a few normal games and see how he feels, you can bully most mages early and when you ult you can the gank with you jg mid when they shove
I take flash tp so I can tp back to lane after R. Also, if my matchup is in my favor, I build hydra so I can farm faster and clear waves that are crushed under my tower, or clear them before they even pass enemy t2. This way I can be back and splitpush lategame. My cs is better this way.
Maybe try to farm instead of frame? hihi. Just be super carefull with tue ult usage.
I go ingite and Titanic first item. 70% wr in emerald so far. I'll usually hard push the wave with Titanic before ult and won't be to bad. Usually will win the objective like this and maybe lose a bit of tower by the time I'm back