Poppy with Shen
How to Synergize Poppy and Shen
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Poppy Shen Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Shen
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Shen
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Poppy perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy is paired with Shen, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Shen doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Poppy plays with Shen on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Poppy in team fights.
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top ally for Poppy that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, Shen is a below average companion for Poppy. By being on the same team as Poppy, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Poppy and Shen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Shen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Poppy and Shen together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Poppy to work well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Poppy and Shen synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other common builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 47.8% helping carry Shen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Poppy players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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