Shen vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Shen
based on 438 Shen vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Elise
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Advice to Win Against Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Shen vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Shen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several important Shen versus Elise counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Elise’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Elise..
Shen normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Elise. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shen and Elise
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Who is Better, Shen or Elise?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shen usually wins when playing against Elise, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Shen makes a great counter to Elise.
While Shen does have a higher winrate than Elise, when they face off with one another, Shen also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Shen into Elise.
Moreover, Shen has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shen vs Elise matchups, Shen is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Shen is a great counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Shen against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen often accumulates much more CS as Elise. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Shen versus Elise build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Elise than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 53.7% when countering Elise with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Elise as Shen, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Shen vs Elise counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
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