Shen with Poppy
How to Synergize Shen and Poppy
based on 590 Shen with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Shen with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Shen Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Shen in LoL
The Shen Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Poppy helps Shen perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is paired with Poppy, he observes a sizeable uptick in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Poppy helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Poppy on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Poppy.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Poppy on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Poppy does a poor job of covering Shen in teamfights.
Synergies between Shen and Poppy
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Is Shen better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no top ally for Shen that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Poppy is a not very good teammate for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, she drops their win rate by -1.9% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Shen and Poppy that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Poppy has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players should be careful when enlisting Poppy allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, Shen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Shen and Poppy together, you will not be granting your other allies much AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen to synergize with Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Shen and Poppy synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Poppy than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Poppy with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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