Akshan vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Akshan
based on 1,192 Akshan vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Shen
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Shen
Be ready to dodge Shen's taunt and punish him if he misses.
Once Shen reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, which can turn fights quickly.
Akshan vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Akshan against Shen counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Shen. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Akshan typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Typically, they receives less damage than Shen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Shen
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Who is Better, Akshan or Shen?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when taking on Shen, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a poor counter for Shen.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate than Shen, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Shen.
Furthermore, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Shen matchups, Shen is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter to Shen. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Shen. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Shen build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better when fighting Shen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when playing against Shen with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Shen as Akshan, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Akshan vs Shen counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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