Rammus with Shen
How to Synergize Rammus and Shen
based on 930 Rammus with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rammus Shen Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Shen
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Shen
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus 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, Rammus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Rammus perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rammus tries to synergize with Shen, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This change may signal that Shen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played alongside Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Additionally, when Rammus plays with Shen on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Rammus in teamfights.
Synergies between Rammus and Shen
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Is Rammus better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect ally for Rammus that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Shen is a relatively poor ally for Rammus. By locking into the same side as Rammus, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 48.7%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Rammus and Shen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Rammus. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Shen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Rammus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Rammus and Shen together, you probably will not be providing your side very much AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing 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 Rammus to work well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Rammus and Shen synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Rammus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Shen than with most other common builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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