Shen vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Shen
based on 1,619 Shen vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Lee Sin
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Advice to Win Against Lee Sin
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Shen vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Shen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several strategic Shen versus Lee Sin matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lee Sin..
Shen usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Lee Sin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shen and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Shen or Lee Sin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shen usually wins when playing against Lee Sin, with a 56.1% win rate. Thus, Shen makes a fantastic counter to Lee Sin.
While Shen does have a much higher win rate than Lee Sin, when facing one another, Shen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Shen into Lee Sin.
Furthermore, Shen also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shen vs Lee Sin matchups, Shen is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Shen is a great counter for Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shen against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen on average accumulates much more CS as Lee Sin. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Shen versus Lee Sin build consist of Frostfire Gauntlet, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Lee Sin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 56.1% when playing against Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Lee Sin as Shen, Shen players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Shen vs Lee Sin counters, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 56.1% winrate overall.
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