Tristana vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Tristana
based on 2,142 Tristana vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Shen
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several valuable Tristana against Shen counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Shen..
Tristana normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Shen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Shen
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Who is Better, Tristana or Shen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when trying to fight Shen, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a poor counter to Shen.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate compared to Shen, when facing one another, Tristana also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Shen.
Furthermore, Tristana also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Shen matchups, Shen is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter to Shen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Tristana to counter Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Shen. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Tristana versus Shen build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Shen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Shen as Tristana, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Tristana vs Shen fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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