Shen with Nautilus
How to Synergize Shen and Nautilus
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Shen Nautilus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Shen with Nautilus
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 Nautilus Will Play
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Shen Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Shen in LoL
The Shen Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, 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 Nautilus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nautilus helps Shen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is an ally to Nautilus, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Nautilus helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Nautilus on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no top companion for Shen that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a terrible ally for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, he drops their win rate by -3.5% to 46.2%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Shen and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players should be very careful when arranging Nautilus teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by grouping Shen and Nautilus together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 truly master Shen in order to pair well with Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Shen and Nautilus synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Nautilus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 46.2% helping carry Nautilus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.2% winrate overall.
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