Urgot with Shen
How to Synergize Urgot and Shen
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Urgot Shen Synergy Summary
Best Urgot vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Urgot and Shen
Tips for Playing as Urgot with Shen
Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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.
Urgot Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Urgot in LoL
The Urgot Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Urgot sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shen helps Urgot perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Urgot is an ally to Shen, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Shen provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Urgot is played together with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Additionally, when Urgot plays with Shen on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of covering Urgot in team fights.
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Is Urgot better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Urgot that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Shen is a good companion for Urgot. By locking into the same side as Urgot, he raises their win rate by 1.2% to 52.3%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Urgot and Shen that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Urgot. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Shen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Urgot players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Urgot and Shen together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Urgot to work well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Urgot and Shen synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Urgot bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Urgot boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when playing alongside Shen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Urgot players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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