Shen with Aphelios
How to Synergize Shen and Aphelios
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Shen Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Shen with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Shen Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Shen in LoL
The Shen Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Shen perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen tries to synergize with Aphelios, he gets a little drop in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Aphelios does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Aphelios 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 Aphelios.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Aphelios on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no top synergy for Shen that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Aphelios is a not very good companion for Shen. By being on the same team as Shen, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Shen and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players need to be very careful when enlisting Aphelios allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Shen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Although, by grouping Shen and Aphelios together, you may not be granting your team very much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen to work well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Shen and Aphelios synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating 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. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Aphelios with Shen are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.