Shen with Talon
How to Synergize Shen and Talon
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Shen Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Talon
Tips for Playing as Shen with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Shen Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Shen in LoL
The Shen Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Talon helps Shen perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Talon, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Talon helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Talon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Talon.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Talon on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Talon does a decent job of covering Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Talon?
There is no perfect ally for Shen that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Talon is a very typical teammate for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 49.1%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Shen and Talon that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players need to be careful when lining up Talon teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Shen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Shen and Talon together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Talon ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen in order to synergize with Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Shen and Talon synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Talon than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Talon 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 combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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