Kayn with Shen
How to Synergize Kayn and Shen
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Kayn Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Shen
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Shen
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn 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 negative change shows that Shen helps Kayn perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn plays on the same team as Shen, he observes a clear improvement in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Shen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Shen on the same side, he usually receives 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 Kayn during team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top champion pairing for Kayn that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Shen is a very typical teammate for Kayn. By locking into the same team as Kayn, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Kayn and Shen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be cautious when finding Shen comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Kayn and Shen together, you may not be granting your side a lot of AP. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Kayn in order to pair well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Kayn and Shen synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Profane Hydra. When Kayn included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Shen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayn had an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kayn players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Kayn and Shen pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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