Shen with Skarner
How to Synergize Shen and Skarner
based on 191 Shen with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Shen with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Shen Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Shen in LoL
The Shen Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Skarner helps Shen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen tries to synergize with Skarner, he sees a noticable increase in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Skarner provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Skarner on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Skarner does a poor job of protecting Shen in team fights.
Synergies between Shen and Skarner
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Is Shen better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no perfect ally for Shen that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Skarner is a terrible companion for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, he decreases their win rate by -5.7% to 44.0%. This shows that there is a terrible synergy between Shen and Skarner that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you should be cautious when finding Skarner teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Shen and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen to work well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Shen and Skarner synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Skarner than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 44.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing 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 builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.0% winrate overall.
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