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.
Watch Kled's courage bar when he's off his mount - when it reaches 100%, he will remount and regain a significant amount of health.
Kled is much more threatening when he has Violent Tendencies ready.
Kled generates courage by damaging enemies with his Pocket Pistol and basic attacks, killing minions, and attacking structures or epic monsters.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some influential Shen versus Kled matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kled’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kled. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Shen normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Kled. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shen usually wins when facing off against Kled, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Shen makes a good counter for Kled.
While Shen does have a higher winrate than Kled, when on opposite teams, Shen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Shen into Kled.
Moreover, Shen has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kled. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shen vs Kled matchups, Shen is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Shen is an above average counter to Kled. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shen against Kled.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to counter Kled during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kled. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Shen versus Kled build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Kled than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when countering Kled with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Kled as Shen, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Shen vs Kled fights, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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