Shen with Kayn
How to Synergize Shen and Kayn
based on 2,887 Shen with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Kayn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Shen with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Shen Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Shen in LoL
The Shen Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kayn helps Shen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen tries to synergize with Kayn, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Kayn supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Kayn 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 synergisticly with Kayn.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Kayn on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Kayn does a poor job of covering Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no perfect synergy for Shen that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Kayn is a below average ally for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Shen and Kayn that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kayn has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players should be careful when lining up Kayn teammates to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Shen and Kayn together, you may not be providing your other allies enough magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kayn teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Kayn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Shen and Kayn synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Shen included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Kayn than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kayn with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Shen players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Shen and Kayn pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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