Shen with Xerath
How to Synergize Shen and Xerath
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Shen Xerath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Shen with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Shen Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Shen in LoL
The Shen Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xerath helps Shen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen tries to synergize with Xerath, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Xerath provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xerath.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Xerath on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shen that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Xerath is a very typical companion for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 50.6%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Shen and Xerath that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players need to be very careful when lining up Xerath allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Shen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Shen and Xerath together, you probably will not be providing your side much attack damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shen to work well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Shen and Xerath synergy build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Shen included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xerath than with many other common builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xerath with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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