Shen with Darius
How to Synergize Shen and Darius
based on 575 Shen with Darius pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Darius Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Darius
Tips for Playing as Shen with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Shen Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Shen in LoL
The Shen Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Darius helps Shen perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Darius, he gets a big decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Darius does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Darius on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Darius.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Darius on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Darius does a decent job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Darius?
There is no top ally for Shen that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Darius is a good companion for Shen. By locking into the same side as Shen, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 51.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Shen and Darius that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Darius has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players don't need to be careful when arranging Darius comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Shen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Shen and Darius together, you may not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Darius ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Shen and Darius synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Darius than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 51.3% helping carry Darius with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Shen players should equip 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 combinations we have analyed for Shen and Darius pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Darius with Shen are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.