Shen with Ahri
How to Synergize Shen and Ahri
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Shen Ahri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Shen with Ahri
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.
Advice to Understand How Ahri Will Play
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Shen Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Shen in LoL
The Shen Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shen sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ahri helps Shen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen plays on the same team as Ahri, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Ahri helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Ahri 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 synergisticly with Ahri.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Ahri on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Ahri does a poor job of protecting Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shen that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Ahri is a not very good teammate for Shen. By being on the same team as Shen, she decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 47.2%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Shen and Ahri that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Ahri has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players must be very careful when lining up Ahri comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Shen and Ahri together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much AD. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Ahri ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shen to pair well with Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Shen and Ahri synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Shen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Ahri than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ahri with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Shen players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Ahri with Shen are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.