Shen with Karthus
How to Synergize Shen and Karthus
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Shen Karthus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Shen with Karthus
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 Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Shen Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Shen in LoL
The Shen Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, 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 Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karthus helps Shen perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Karthus, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Karthus provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Karthus on the same side, 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 Karthus.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Karthus on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no perfect companion for Shen that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Karthus is a very bad companion for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he decreases their win rate by -3.5% to 46.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Shen and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players should be cautious when arranging Karthus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Shen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Shen and Karthus together, you probably will not be providing your team much AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Karthus teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to work well with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Shen and Karthus synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 46.2% helping carry Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Shen players should take 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 sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Karthus with Shen are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.