Shen vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Shen
based on 974 Shen vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Sivir
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.
Advice to Win Against Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Shen vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Shen in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Shen versus Sivir counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sivir..
Shen usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Sivir. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shen and Sivir
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Who is Better, Shen or Sivir?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shen usually wins when trying to fight Sivir, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Shen makes a good counter for Sivir.
While Shen does have a higher winrate compared to Sivir, when facing one another, Shen also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shen into Sivir.
Furthermore, Shen also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shen vs Sivir matchups, Shen is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Shen is a decent counter to Sivir. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Shen against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shen in order to counter Sivir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen on average gets less CS relative to Sivir. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Shen versus Sivir build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Sivir than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when playing against Sivir with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Sivir as Shen, you 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. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Shen vs Sivir fights, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.7% win rate overall.
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