Shen with Sona
How to Synergize Shen and Sona
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Shen Sona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Sona
Tips for Playing as Shen with Sona
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 Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Shen Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Shen in LoL
The Shen Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sona helps Shen perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Sona, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Sona provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Sona 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 synergisticly with Sona.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Sona on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Sona does a decent job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Sona?
There is no perfect companion for Shen that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Sona is a very typical companion for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, she raises their win rate by 0.9% to 50.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Shen and Sona that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Sona has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players don't need to be very careful when arranging Sona teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Shen and Sona together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Shen to synergize with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Shen and Sona synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Sona than with many other common builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Sona with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Shen and Sona pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Sona with Shen are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.