Kennen with Shen
How to Synergize Kennen and Shen
based on 389 Kennen with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Shen
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Shen
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
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.
Kennen Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen 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, Kennen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shen helps Kennen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is paired with Shen, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Shen provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Shen on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Shen does a decent job of covering Kennen in teamfights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Kennen that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Shen is a decent companion for Kennen. By playing on the same side as Kennen, he improves their win rate by 1.8% to 50.4%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Kennen and Shen that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Shen teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Kennen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Kennen and Shen together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to synergize with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Kennen and Shen synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Shen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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