| Availability | Surgeon Shen is available in the in-game shop and can also drop from Hextech Crafting |
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| Price | It costs 975 RP |
| Concept | The skin turns Shen into a calm, efficient surgeon in a hospital theme. |
| Model | e wears teal surgical scrubs with a mask and stethoscope, wields a scalpel, has white gloves and shoes. |
| Particles | Ability effects are recolored to cyan, giving his Spirit Blade and skills a clean, clinical glow versus the base purple. |
| Animations | No bespoke animations were added beyond Shen’s 2016 visual update; the recall is the standard Shen recall using this outfit. |
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| Sounds | There are no unique voice lines for this skin, but it uses Shen’s updated voiceover and refreshed SFX |
| Rarity | common |
| Release date | 01/04/2011 |
Surgeon Shen swaps his heavy ninja armor for teal surgical scrubs, a face mask, and a stethoscope, with white gloves and shoes and a pale purple skin tone that contrasts nicely against the outfit. Compared to base Shen’s dark armor and magenta energy, this skin feels lighter and more modern, with a clean cyan treatment across his Spirit Blade and abilities that reads clearly in fights. The surgical blade model replaces his usual weapon, and small texture details like fabric folds, stitched seams, and the stethoscope metal help sell the medical theme. The overall feel in-game is crisp and clinical, with cyan slashes and shields that stand out from the ground without being flashy, and it plays like a playful hospital parody rather than a serious lore tie-in. This skin is not tied to a seasonal event; it’s a classic thematic variant with recolored VFX and a new passive/Spirit Blade model. Chromas expand the palette further under the “Rift Hospital" set for players who want different scrub colors without changing the clean effects.
Release date: April 1, 2011. Notable updates: V4.19 new splash art; V4.21 texture update; V6.2 champion-wide visual update with a new model, new voiceover, refreshed VFX/SFX, and adjusted splash; V10.13 VFX pass that modernized the cyan effects.
Surgeon Shen fits Riot’s medical-themed skins that turn champions into hospital staff with tongue-in-cheek flair and clean color palettes. Other medical skins include:
Chromas for Surgeon Shen (Rift Hospital set): Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Rainbow, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sandstone, Sapphire.Trivia: During the Covid-19 pandemic all 100% of the proceeds from these skins was donated to Covid Relief Charities (Source)
Surgeon Shen is not rare because it’s still sold in the store for 975 RP, so it’s classified as Common, though collectors may value accounts with its full chroma set.
Yes, since it’s a store skin, it can appear as a loot shard, from rerolls, or in Mystery Gifts and event orbs, and you can also pick up accounts that already own it from marketplaces like LoL Accounts, Buy LoL Accounts.
If you want flashier effects, many players prefer Shockblade Shen for its electric blue VFX and sleek armor, or PsyOps Shen for its modern tech aesthetic and polished effects; you can compare them all here: All Shen Skins.
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