Shen with Kindred
How to Synergize Shen and Kindred
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Shen Kindred Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Shen with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Shen Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Shen in LoL
The Shen Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kindred helps Shen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is paired with Kindred, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Kindred does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Kindred on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kindred. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kindred.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Kindred on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shen that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Kindred is a not very good companion for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, they decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 47.9%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Shen and Kindred that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Kindred teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Shen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Shen and Kindred together, you may not be providing your other allies much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's ability, 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
To truly master Shen in order to work well with Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Shen and Kindred synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kindred than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Kindred with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 combinations players chose for Shen and Kindred pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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