Aatrox with Shen
How to Synergize Aatrox and Shen
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Aatrox Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Shen
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Shen
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Understand How Shen Will Play
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.
Aatrox Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Aatrox perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox is paired with Shen, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Shen supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played together with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Moreover, when Aatrox plays with Shen on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of covering Aatrox during team fights.
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal companion for Aatrox that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Shen is a decent teammate for Aatrox. By being on the same team as Aatrox, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 51.4%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Aatrox and Shen that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Aatrox. That means Aatrox players don't need to be cautious when finding Shen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Aatrox and Shen together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aatrox in order to synergize with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Aatrox and Shen synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Shen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when playing alongside Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Aatrox players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Aatrox and Shen pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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