Shen with Shaco
How to Synergize Shen and Shaco
based on 2,236 Shen with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shen with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Shen Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Shen in LoL
The Shen Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Shen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen plays on the same team as Shaco, he observes a sizeable uptick in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Shaco supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Shaco on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shaco.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Shaco on the same side, he on average takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no perfect synergy for Shen that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Shaco is a not very good companion for Shen. By being on the same team as Shen, he lowers their win rate by -2.7% to 47.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Shen and Shaco that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players must be careful when lining up Shaco comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Shen and Shaco together, you may not be providing your other allies much AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Shaco ally, you need to focus on maximizing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Shen to pair well with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Shen and Shaco synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Shen included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Shaco than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 47.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shaco with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip 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 players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
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