Shen with Irelia
How to Synergize Shen and Irelia
based on 979 Shen with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Shen with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Shen Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Shen in LoL
The Shen Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Shen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is an ally to Irelia, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Irelia does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Irelia.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Irelia on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shen that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Irelia is a pretty good companion for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, she improves their win rate by 2.8% to 52.5%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Shen and Irelia that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Irelia teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Shen players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Shen and Irelia together, you may not be providing your team enough AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shen to pair well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Shen and Irelia synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Irelia than with many other common builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 52.5% when playing alongside Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you 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 runes we have analyed for Shen and Irelia pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
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