Irelia with Shen
How to Synergize Irelia and Shen
based on 979 Irelia with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Shen Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Shen
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Shen
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia 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 drop shows that Shen helps Irelia perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia is an ally to Shen, she sees a little increase in her full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Shen provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Shen.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Shen on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Irelia in team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Shen
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect companion for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Shen is a good teammate for Irelia. By playing on the same side as Irelia, he improves their win rate by 2.7% to 52.5%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Irelia and Shen that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players don't need to be very careful when lining up Shen comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Irelia and Shen together, you may not be granting your team a lot of magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Irelia in order to synergize with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Irelia and Shen synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia used at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Shen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 52.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Irelia and Shen pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Shen with Irelia are shown for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.