Shen with Leona
How to Synergize Shen and Leona
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Shen Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Leona
Tips for Playing as Shen with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Shen Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Shen in LoL
The Shen Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Leona helps Shen perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is paired with Leona, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This change could signal that Leona supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Leona 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 with Leona.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Leona on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Leona does a decent job of covering Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Leona?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Shen that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Leona is a great teammate for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, she increases their win rate by 3.3% to 53.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a strong bond between Shen and Leona that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Leona teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Shen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Shen and Leona together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Shen and Leona synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Leona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Shen players 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 sets players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.0% win rate overall.
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