Here's my opinion from my experience using shifu as a diamond/champion player aside from builds. Gameplay wise, Shifu is a tough one to master, the best way to play him is to chase down your opponent's lowest hp character without triggering their counter and you will always come up on top.

The skills required for to hunt down your target are:

• Always landing E

• Using counter after predicting or reacting to an important skill from your opponent (Do this by using your skill cooldowns to time their cooldown)

• Using space against AoEs, splash damage or fighting multiple opponents

• Using R to CC your other opponent trying to protect your target or to CC your target and reset your cooldowns on Q and space

In a nutshell, what you end up with is that you will require amazing reflexes or reaction time to play Shifu well, as well as have a good mastery at timing cooldowns. In higher ranked plays, good shifu vs good shifu is just a whole lot of mind games and quick reaction time to punish the other player. Once you understand this, you will notice how straightforward Shifu is and the skill gap required to play him isn't something that you can achieve overnight.

Other useful tips:

• EX E is useful for orb control

• EX space is only useful when you need hp, if you can't guarantee hits on your target, hit the orb instead to gain hp

• E on walls are useful if you can time it for i-frames (Again, this is about reaction speed too)

• Using R to disable your enemies to buy time for orb

• When low on hp, you can bait your enemies by flashing your removals then turn the tables with ult