Zed with Shen
How to Synergize Zed and Shen
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Zed Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Shen
Tips for Playing as Zed with Shen
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Zed perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed plays on the same team as Shen, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This may signal that Shen provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Shen on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Shen does a decent job of covering Zed during team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top synergy for Zed that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Shen is a very typical ally for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 47.7%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Zed and Shen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Shen comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Zed and Shen together, you may not be providing your side very much AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to pair well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Zed and Shen synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Zed incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 47.7% helping carry Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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