Shyvana with Shen
How to Synergize Shyvana and Shen
based on 819 Shyvana with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Shen Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Shen
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Shen
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
Advice to Understand How Shen Will Play
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.
Shyvana Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Shyvana perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is an ally to Shen, she gets a little increase in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Shen provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played alongside Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Shen on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Shen does a decent job of protecting Shyvana in teamfights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Shen
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shyvana that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Shen is a superb companion for Shyvana. By being on the same side as Shyvana, he increases their win rate by 4.1% to 53.2%. This demonstrates that there is a strong strategic relationship between Shyvana and Shen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players don't need to be very careful when finding Shen allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Shyvana and Shen together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Shyvana to synergize with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Shyvana and Shen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Shen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 53.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Shyvana players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Shyvana and Shen pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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