Shen with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Shen and Caitlyn
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Shen Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Shen with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Shen Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Shen in LoL
The Shen Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Caitlyn helps Shen perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is an ally to Caitlyn, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Caitlyn doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Caitlyn 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 with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Caitlyn on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no perfect companion for Shen that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Caitlyn is a very typical teammate for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, she decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 48.8%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Shen and Caitlyn that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players should be careful when arranging Caitlyn comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Shen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Shen and Caitlyn together, you may not be granting your other allies much magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Caitlyn teammate, you should focus on maximizing 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
If you would like to truly master Shen in order to work well with Caitlyn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Shen and Caitlyn synergy build include Heartsteel, Titanic Hydra, and Hollow Radiance. When Shen used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Caitlyn than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Ultimate Hunter, and Cheap Shot runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Shen and Caitlyn pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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