Shen with Hecarim
How to Synergize Shen and Hecarim
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Shen Hecarim Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Shen with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Shen Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Shen in LoL
The Shen Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Hecarim helps Shen perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Hecarim, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Hecarim provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Hecarim. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Hecarim.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Hecarim on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no ideal companion for Shen that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Hecarim is a very typical ally for Shen. By being on the same team as Shen, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 48.7%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Shen and Hecarim that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Hecarim has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players must be cautious when enlisting Hecarim allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by bringing Shen and Hecarim together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Hecarim teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Shen in order to work well with Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Shen and Hecarim synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Hecarim than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Hecarim with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Shen players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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