Shen vs Senna
How to Beat Senna as Shen
based on 4,958 Shen vs Senna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Senna Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Senna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Senna as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Senna
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.
Shen vs Senna Counter Stats
How to Counter Senna with Shen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some critical Shen versus Senna matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Senna’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Senna..
Shen normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Senna. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shen and Senna
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Who is Better, Shen or Senna?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shen usually loses when taking on Senna, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Shen makes a bad counter to Senna.
While Shen does have a lower winrate compared to Senna, when facing one another, Shen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Shen into Senna.
Moreover, Shen also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Senna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shen vs Senna matchups, Senna is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shen is a somewhat poor counter to Senna. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Shen against Senna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shen to counter Senna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen on average accumulates more CS compared to Senna. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly 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 on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Shen versus Senna build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Shen bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Senna than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when countering Senna with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Senna as Shen, Shen players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Shen vs Senna face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Senna as Shen are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.