Illaoi with Shen
How to Synergize Illaoi and Shen
based on 304 Illaoi with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Shen Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Shen
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Shen
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her 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 Illaoi perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi plays on the same team as Shen, she sees a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This could signal that Shen provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Shen on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Shen does a decent job of covering Illaoi during teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Shen
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect ally for Illaoi that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Shen is a very typical ally for Illaoi. By locking into the same side as Illaoi, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Illaoi and Shen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Illaoi. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Shen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Illaoi players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Illaoi and Shen together, you will not be granting your side very much magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to pair well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Illaoi and Shen synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Shen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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