Kassadin with Shen
How to Synergize Kassadin and Shen
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Kassadin Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Shen
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Shen
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Kassadin perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin is an ally to Shen, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Shen provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played together 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 Kassadin plays with Shen on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Shen does a decent job of protecting Kassadin in teamfights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best companion for Kassadin that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Shen is a below average ally for Kassadin. By locking into the same team as Kassadin, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 47.7%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Kassadin and Shen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be careful when enlisting Shen teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, Kassadin players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Kassadin and Shen together, you may not be giving your team much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to synergize with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Kassadin and Shen synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Shen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 47.7% helping carry Shen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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