Rumble with Shen
How to Synergize Rumble and Shen
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Rumble Shen Synergy Summary
Best Rumble vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Shen
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Shen
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
Rumble Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble 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, Rumble 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 decrease shows that Shen helps Rumble perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rumble is paired with Shen, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Shen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Moreover, when Rumble plays with Shen on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Rumble in team fights.
Synergies between Rumble and Shen
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best ally for Rumble that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Shen is a good teammate for Rumble. By being on the same side as Rumble, he increases their win rate by 1.4% to 50.7%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Rumble and Shen that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Rumble. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Shen allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Rumble players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Rumble and Shen together, you may not be giving your other allies very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rumble to synergize with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Rumble and Shen synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rumble boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Shen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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