Shen with Karma
How to Synergize Shen and Karma
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Shen Karma Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Karma
Tips for Playing as Shen with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Shen Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Shen in LoL
The Shen Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Karma helps Shen perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen tries to synergize with Karma, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Karma helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Karma on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shen that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Karma is a not very good ally for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, she lowers their win rate by -2.7% to 47.0%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Shen and Karma that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players need to be very careful when lining up Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Shen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Shen and Karma together, you may not be giving your other allies enough AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to synergize with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Shen and Karma synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Karma than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 47.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Karma with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating 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 sets players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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