Shen with Yasuo
How to Synergize Shen and Yasuo
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Shen Yasuo Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Shen with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Shen Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Shen in LoL
The Shen Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yasuo helps Shen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Yasuo, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Yasuo does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Yasuo 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 Yasuo.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Yasuo on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no ideal companion for Shen that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Yasuo is a very typical ally for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Shen and Yasuo that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players need to be very careful when lining up Yasuo allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Shen and Yasuo together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Yasuo ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen in order to pair well with Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Shen and Yasuo synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Yasuo than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 49.8% helping carry Yasuo with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Shen and Yasuo pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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