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.
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
The Shen Syndra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Syndra, 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 Syndra. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Syndra helps Shen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Syndra, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Syndra does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Syndra on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Syndra.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Syndra on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Syndra does a poor job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Shen that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Syndra is a terrible companion for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, she lowers their win rate by -4.0% to 45.7%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Shen and Syndra that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Syndra has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Syndra allies to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Shen and Syndra together, you will not be providing your team very much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Syndra ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Shen in order to work well with Syndra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Shen and Syndra synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Syndra than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 45.7% when playing alongside Syndra with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Shen players should take 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 runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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