Shen with Akali
How to Synergize Shen and Akali
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Shen Akali Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Akali
Tips for Playing as Shen with Akali
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 Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Shen Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Shen in LoL
The Shen Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, 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 Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akali helps Shen perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Akali, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Akali does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Akali on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Akali does a poor job of covering Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Akali?
There is no ideal synergy for Shen that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Akali is a very typical companion for Shen. By being on the same team as Shen, she lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 49.1%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Shen and Akali that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you must be careful when lining up Akali comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Shen and Akali together, you will not be giving your team a lot of attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen in order to pair well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Shen and Akali synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Akali than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akali with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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