Shen with Soraka
How to Synergize Shen and Soraka
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Shen Soraka Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Shen with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Shen Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Shen in LoL
The Shen Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Soraka helps Shen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Soraka, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Soraka helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Soraka on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Soraka. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Soraka.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Soraka on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no one best ally for Shen that will always be his top teammate. However, Soraka is a very typical companion for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, she lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 49.4%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Shen and Soraka that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Soraka has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players don't need to be careful when lining up Soraka comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by aligning Shen and Soraka together, you may not be granting your other teammates much AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Soraka ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Shen and Soraka synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Soraka than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Soraka with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use 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 players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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