Garen with Shen
How to Synergize Garen and Shen
based on 661 Garen with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Shen Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Shen
Tips for Playing as Garen with Shen
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Garen perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Shen, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Shen does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Shen on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Shen does a decent job of covering Garen during team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal synergy for Garen that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Shen is a decent teammate for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, he increases their win rate by 2.3% to 51.0%. This proves that there is a good synergy between Garen and Shen that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be cautious when lining up Shen teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Shen together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Garen to pair well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Garen and Shen synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Shen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Garen and Shen pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.0% winrate overall.
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