Shen with Draven
How to Synergize Shen and Draven
based on 2,124 Shen with Draven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Draven Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Draven
Tips for Playing as Shen with Draven
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 Draven Will Play
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
Shen Draven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Draven as Shen in LoL
The Shen Draven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Draven, 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 Draven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Draven helps Shen perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Draven, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Draven does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Draven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Draven.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Draven on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Draven does a decent job of covering Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Draven?
There is no perfect ally for Shen that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Draven is a very typical teammate for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Shen and Draven that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Draven has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players need to be very careful when enlisting Draven teammates to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by pairing Shen and Draven together, you may not be providing your team a lot of magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Draven ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 synergize with Draven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Shen and Draven synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Draven than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Draven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Shen players should use 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 that we analyzed for Shen and Draven pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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