Nidalee with Shen
How to Synergize Nidalee and Shen
based on 444 Nidalee with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Shen Synergy Summary
Best Nidalee vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Shen
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Shen
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee 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, Nidalee sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Nidalee perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee plays on the same team as Shen, she gets a sizeable uptick in her total damage output. This could indicate that Shen provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Shen on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Shen does a poor job of covering Nidalee during team fights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Shen
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Nidalee that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Shen is a below average companion for Nidalee. By being on the same team as Nidalee, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 43.5%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Nidalee and Shen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Shen teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nidalee players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Nidalee and Shen together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Nidalee in order to synergize with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Nidalee and Shen synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Shen than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 43.5% helping carry Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Nidalee and Shen pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.5% win rate overall.
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