Shen vs Urgot
How to Beat Urgot as Shen
based on 1,294 Shen vs Urgot matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Urgot Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Urgot Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Urgot as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Urgot
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 Urgot
If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
Shen vs Urgot Counter Stats
How to Counter Urgot with Shen in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some critical Shen vs. Urgot matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Urgot’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Urgot. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Shen typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Urgot. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shen and Urgot
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Who is Better, Shen or Urgot?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shen usually loses when trying to fight Urgot, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Shen makes a bad counter for Urgot.
While Shen does have a lower win rate compared to Urgot, when facing one another, Shen also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shen into Urgot.
Additionally, Shen has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Urgot. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shen vs Urgot matchups, Urgot is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Shen is a somewhat poor counter to Urgot. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shen against Urgot.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to counter Urgot 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 shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Urgot. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Shen versus Urgot build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Urgot than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Urgot with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating Urgot 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 runes that we analyzed for Shen vs Urgot counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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