Ahri vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Ahri
based on 2,015 Ahri vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Shen
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Shen
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.
Ahri vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several critical Ahri against Shen counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shen..
Ahri usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Shen. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Shen
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Who is Better, Ahri or Shen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when taking on Shen, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a poor counter to Shen.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Shen, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Shen.
Moreover, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Shen matchups, Shen is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Shen. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Shen. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Ahri versus Shen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Shen than with most other common builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when playing against Shen with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Shen as Ahri, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ahri vs Shen counters, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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