Mordekaiser vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Mordekaiser
based on 5,306 Mordekaiser vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Mordekaiser vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Mordekaiser vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Mordekaiser against Shen
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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.
Mordekaiser vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Mordekaiser in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some strategic Mordekaiser vs. Shen counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Shen. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Mordekaiser usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Shen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Mordekaiser and Shen
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Who is Better, Mordekaiser or Shen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Mordekaiser usually wins when taking on Shen, with a 56.0% win rate. Therefore, Mordekaiser makes a fantastic counter to Shen.
While Mordekaiser does have a much higher win rate than Shen, when facing one another, Mordekaiser also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Mordekaiser into Shen.
Additionally, Mordekaiser has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Shen matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Mordekaiser is a great counter to Shen. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Mordekaiser against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Mordekaiser in order to counter Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser on average gets a similar amount of CS as Shen. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Mordekaiser versus Shen build include Nashor's Tooth, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Riftmaker. When Mordekaiser combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Shen than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Mordekaiser had an average winrate of 56.0% battling Shen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Shen as Mordekaiser, Mordekaiser players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Mordekaiser vs Shen matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 56.0% winrate overall.
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