Shen with Anivia
How to Synergize Shen and Anivia
based on 903 Shen with Anivia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Anivia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Anivia
Tips for Playing as Shen with Anivia
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 Anivia Will Play
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Shen Anivia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Anivia as Shen in LoL
The Shen Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 Anivia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Anivia helps Shen perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is an ally to Anivia, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Anivia provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Anivia on the same side, 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 Anivia.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Anivia on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Anivia does a poor job of protecting Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Anivia?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Shen that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Anivia is a good ally for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, she increases their win rate by 1.8% to 51.5%. This proves that there is a somewhat important synergy between Shen and Anivia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Anivia has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players should be very careful when finding Anivia teammates to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Shen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Shen and Anivia together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Anivia teammate, you should focus on increasing 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 Shen in order to work well with Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Shen and Anivia synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Anivia than with many other common builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Anivia with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Shen players 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 sets we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
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