Nami with Shen
How to Synergize Nami and Shen
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Nami Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Shen
Tips for Playing as Nami with Shen
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Nami in LoL
The Nami Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nami sees a large worsening in her 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 Nami perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nami plays on the same team as Shen, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This difference could signal that Shen helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played together with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Shen on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Nami during team fights.
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Is Nami better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal synergy for Nami that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, Shen is a very typical companion for Nami. By playing on the same team as Nami, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 48.3%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Nami and Shen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players don't need to be careful when lining up Shen teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Nami and Shen together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of attack damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 truly master Nami to synergize with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Nami and Shen synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Nami players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Nami and Shen pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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