Shen with Janna
How to Synergize Shen and Janna
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Shen Janna Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Janna
Tips for Playing as Shen with Janna
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 Janna Will Play
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Shen Janna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Janna as Shen in LoL
The Shen Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 Janna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Janna helps Shen perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Janna, he observes a clear improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Janna helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Janna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Janna.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Janna on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Janna does a decent job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Janna?
There is no one best synergy for Shen that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Janna is a good companion for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, she increases their win rate by 2.2% to 51.9%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Shen and Janna that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Janna has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players should be careful when arranging Janna teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Shen and Janna together, you may not be providing your other teammates much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Janna teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shen in order to pair well with Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Shen and Janna synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Janna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing alongside Janna with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Shen players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.9% win rate overall.
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