Shen with Graves
How to Synergize Shen and Graves
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Shen Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Graves
Tips for Playing as Shen with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Shen Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Shen in LoL
The Shen Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Shen perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Graves, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Graves does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Graves on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Shen that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Graves is a very typical teammate for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 50.6%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Shen and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players don't need to be very careful when finding Graves teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Shen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Shen and Graves together, you will not be providing your side very much magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shen to work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Shen and Graves synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating 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. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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