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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several influential Shen against Rumble counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, showing that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rumble..
Shen often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Rumble. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shen usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rumble, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Shen makes an ok counter to Rumble.
While Shen does have a lower win rate than Rumble, when on opposite teams, Shen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shen into Rumble.
Additionally, Shen has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shen vs Rumble matchups, Rumble is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Shen is a somewhat poor counter for Rumble. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Shen against Rumble.
To truly master Shen to counter Rumble during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Rumble. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Shen versus Rumble build include Thornmail, Titanic Hydra, and Hollow Radiance. When Shen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Rumble than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Rumble with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Rumble as Shen, Shen players should take 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 runes that we analyzed for Shen vs Rumble counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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