Shen with Xayah
How to Synergize Shen and Xayah
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Shen Xayah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Shen with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Shen Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Shen in LoL
The Shen Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xayah helps Shen perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen plays on the same team as Xayah, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Xayah helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Xayah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xayah. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xayah.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Xayah on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Xayah does a poor job of covering Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no top companion for Shen that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Xayah is a below average ally for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, she decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 47.4%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Shen and Xayah that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Xayah has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Xayah allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Shen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Shen and Xayah together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Xayah teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shen to work well with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Shen and Xayah synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Xayah than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 47.4% helping carry Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 picked for Shen and Xayah pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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