Shen vs Vladimir in Top lane is a hard lane on patch 26.16. The one thing to respect: his fully-stacked Q — don't taunt in on a full Q-bar or his Transfusion heals through the trade and hits back. Below is the exact page the OTP runs — runes, skill max order, summoner spells, item build and the four tips that decide the lane, plus a quick quiz before you lock in.

⇄ ChangeYOU · TOPSHENthe Eye of Twilight

⇄ ChangeENEMY · TOPVLADIMIRthe Crimson Reaper

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Heavily unfavoredPre-6 HardPost-6 HardTake Ignite

How to play it

✓ DO

Mind his Q-bar

Only taunt in when his Q-bar isn't fully stacked — a full Transfusion heals and trades back far harder.

Punish his pool CD

When he pools to escape your taunt, abuse the ~10s window where your E (18s) is back up but his pool (28s) isn't and taunt again.

Cheese the bushes

Hunt him in the toplane bushes around 1:05–1:25, open E to chunk him, and keep E'ing on cooldown until he's forced to recall.

✕ DON'T

⛔

Never taunt in while his Q-bar is fully stacked — wait for the window where it isn't.

Runes

RESOLVE

INSPIRATIONuniversal page

SHARDS

No rune change for this matchup — run the universal page, our every-game default.

Spells

FLASH

IGNITE

Items

Start

Core

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16.14 Emerald+ - 51% WR - 900 games

Skill order

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	Q			Q	Q		Q	Q
			W											W	W		W	W
		E							E	E		E	E
						R					R					R

MAXQ→E→W

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