Shen with Gnar
How to Synergize Shen and Gnar
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Shen Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Shen with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Shen Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Shen in LoL
The Shen Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gnar helps Shen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Gnar, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Gnar does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Gnar on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect synergy for Shen that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Gnar is a terrible ally for Shen. By locking into the same side as Shen, he drops their win rate by -6.0% to 43.7%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Shen and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means you must be careful when enlisting Gnar teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Shen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Shen and Gnar together, you may not be giving your other allies enough magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Shen and Gnar synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Gnar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 43.7% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Shen and Gnar pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 43.7% winrate overall.
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