Bard with Shen
How to Synergize Bard and Shen
based on 1,581 Bard with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Shen
Tips for Playing as Bard with Shen
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard 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 Bard perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Shen, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Shen helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Shen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Shen does a poor job of protecting Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Bard that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Shen is a not very good companion for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 51.2%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Bard and Shen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when enlisting Shen allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Bard players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by grouping Bard and Shen together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to pair well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Bard and Shen synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Shen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 51.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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