Zilean with Shen
How to Synergize Zilean and Shen
based on 657 Zilean with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zilean Shen Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Shen
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Shen
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean 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, Zilean sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shen helps Zilean perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean plays on the same team as Shen, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Shen supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played together with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Shen on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Shen does a decent job of covering Zilean in team fights.
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top champion pairing for Zilean that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Shen is a very typical companion for Zilean. By playing on the same team as Zilean, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 49.9%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Zilean and Shen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Shen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zilean players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Combined, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by pairing Zilean and Shen together, you probably will not be granting your team very much attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen teammate, you need to focus on increasing 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
If you would like to truly master Zilean to synergize with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Zilean and Shen synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Shen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Zilean players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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