Lee Sin with Shen
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Shen
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Lee Sin Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Shen
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Shen
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shen helps Lee Sin perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lee Sin is paired with Shen, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Shen provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played together with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Additionally, when Lee Sin plays with Shen on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Shen does a decent job of protecting Lee Sin during team fights.
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect synergy for Lee Sin that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Shen is a not very good teammate for Lee Sin. By locking into the same side as Lee Sin, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 45.7%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Lee Sin and Shen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Lee Sin. That means Lee Sin players don't need to be careful when lining up Shen allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Lee Sin players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by grouping Lee Sin and Shen together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to synergize with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Lee Sin and Shen synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Maw of Malmortius, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Shen than with most other common builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 45.7% when playing alongside Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Lee Sin players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.7% winrate overall.
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