Shen with Gangplank
How to Synergize Shen and Gangplank
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Shen Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Shen with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Shen Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Shen in LoL
The Shen Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 Gangplank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gangplank helps Shen perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Gangplank, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This may signal that Gangplank doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Gangplank 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 with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Gangplank on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no perfect ally for Shen that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Gangplank is a very typical ally for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 48.8%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Shen and Gangplank that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Gangplank comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Shen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Shen and Gangplank together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen to synergize with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Shen and Gangplank synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 48.8% helping carry Gangplank with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you 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 sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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