Shen with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Shen and Kai'Sa
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Shen Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Shen with Kai'Sa
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 Understand How Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Shen Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Shen in LoL
The Shen Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kai'Sa. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kai'Sa helps Shen perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Kai'Sa, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Kai'Sa does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kai'Sa. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kai'Sa.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kai'Sa does a decent job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no ideal companion for Shen that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Kai'Sa is a terrible teammate for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, she drops their win rate by -3.8% to 45.9%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Shen and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you must be careful when arranging Kai'Sa comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Shen players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Shen and Kai'Sa together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kai'Sa ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen to work well with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Shen and Kai'Sa synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 45.9% when playing alongside Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
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