Shen with Vladimir
How to Synergize Shen and Vladimir
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Shen Vladimir Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Shen with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Shen Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Shen in LoL
The Shen Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vladimir helps Shen perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen tries to synergize with Vladimir, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Vladimir does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vladimir. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vladimir.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Vladimir on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Shen that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Vladimir is a very typical ally for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 50.5%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Shen and Vladimir that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players need to be careful when lining up Vladimir allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Shen and Vladimir together, you probably will not be providing your team very much attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen to pair well with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Shen and Vladimir synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Vladimir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Vladimir with these items in his kit.
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 players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Vladimir with Shen are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.