Akshan with Shen
How to Synergize Akshan and Shen
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Akshan Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Shen
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Shen
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Akshan perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan is paired with Shen, they observes a small increase in their total damage output. This could signal that Shen helps provide cover for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played alongside Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Shen on the same team, they usually receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Shen does a decent job of covering Akshan in teamfights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top ally for Akshan that will always be their ideal ally. However, overall, Shen is a very typical teammate for Akshan. By playing on the same team as Akshan, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Akshan and Shen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you should be cautious when arranging Shen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Akshan players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Akshan and Shen together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akshan to pair well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Akshan and Shen synergy build include Kraken Slayer, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better as an ally of Shen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 48.6% when playing alongside Shen with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Akshan players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Akshan and Shen pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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