Shen with Gwen
How to Synergize Shen and Gwen
based on 497 Shen with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Shen with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Shen Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Shen in LoL
The Shen Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gwen helps Shen perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Gwen, he observes a measurable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Gwen does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gwen.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Gwen on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Gwen does a decent job of covering Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no one best companion for Shen that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Gwen is a pretty good companion for Shen. By locking into the same side as Shen, she raises their win rate by 2.0% to 51.7%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Shen and Gwen that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Gwen has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Gwen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Shen and Gwen together, you will not be granting your team a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Gwen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Shen to work well with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Shen and Gwen synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gwen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating 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. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Gwen with Shen are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.