Rengar vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Rengar
based on 2,350 Rengar vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rengar vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Rengar vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Rengar
Tips for Playing as Rengar against Shen
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Rengar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Rengar versus Shen counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shen. This observation is largely caused by the differences in killsdeaths.
Rengar usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Shen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rengar and Shen
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Who is Better, Rengar or Shen?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rengar usually fairs equally well when playing against Shen, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Rengar makes an ok counter for Shen.
While Rengar does have a lower winrate than Shen, when they face off with one another, Rengar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rengar into Shenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Rengar has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Rengar vs Shen matchups, Shen is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Rengar is a somewhat poor counter to Shen. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rengar against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rengar to counter Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Shen. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Rengar versus Shen build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Rengar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Shen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Rengar boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Shen with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Shen as Rengar, Rengar players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Rengar vs Shen face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
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