Shen with Alistar
How to Synergize Shen and Alistar
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Shen Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Shen with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Shen Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Shen in LoL
The Shen Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Shen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Alistar, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Alistar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Alistar on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top champion pairing for Shen that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Alistar is a very typical ally for Shen. By locking into the same side as Shen, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 48.9%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Shen and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you need to be very careful when finding Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you 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 aligning Shen and Alistar together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to work well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Shen and Alistar synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Alistar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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