Veigar with Shen
How to Synergize Veigar and Shen
based on 2,219 Veigar with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Veigar Shen Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Shen
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Shen
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar 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, Veigar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shen helps Veigar perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar plays on the same team as Shen, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Shen provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played alongside 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 with Shen.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Shen on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Shen does a decent job of covering Veigar in teamfights.
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Veigar that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Shen is a not very good companion for Veigar. By locking into the same side as Veigar, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 47.3%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Veigar and Shen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Veigar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Shen comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, Veigar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Veigar and Shen together, you will not be granting your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Veigar to work well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Veigar and Shen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Veigar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Shen than with many other common builds. In fact, Veigar boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when playing alongside Shen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Veigar players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
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