Shen with Riven
How to Synergize Shen and Riven
based on 517 Shen with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Riven
Tips for Playing as Shen with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Shen Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Shen in LoL
The Shen Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Shen perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen plays on the same team as Riven, he gets a big decrease in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Riven does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Riven 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 alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Riven on the same team, he typically takes less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal synergy for Shen that will always be his best ally. Yet, Riven is a very typical companion for Shen. By being on the same team as Shen, she increases their win rate by 0.6% to 50.3%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Shen and Riven that results in them performing better together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players must be very careful when arranging Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Shen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Shen and Riven together, you will not be giving your team very much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Shen and Riven synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 50.3% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Shen players 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 sets players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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