Karthus with Shen
How to Synergize Karthus and Shen
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Karthus Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Shen
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Shen
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
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.
Karthus Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus 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, Karthus 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 worsening shows that Shen helps Karthus perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karthus is paired with Shen, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Shen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played alongside 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.
Moreover, when Karthus plays with Shen on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Shen does a decent job of protecting Karthus during teamfights.
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Karthus that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Shen is a relatively poor teammate for Karthus. By playing on the same side as Karthus, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 46.2%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Karthus and Shen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Karthus. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Shen teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Karthus and Shen together, you will not be giving your other allies much AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Karthus in order to pair well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Karthus and Shen synergy build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Shen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Karthus boasted an average win rate of 46.2% helping carry Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.2% win rate overall.
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