Shen vs Zeri
How to Beat Zeri as Shen
based on 692 Shen vs Zeri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shen vs Zeri Matchup Summary
Best Shen vs Zeri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zeri as Shen
Tips for Playing as Shen against Zeri
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.
Shen vs Zeri Counter Stats
How to Counter Zeri with Shen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some important Shen vs. Zeri counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Shen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zeri’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Shen may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zeri. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Shen usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Zeri. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shen and Zeri
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Who is Better, Shen or Zeri?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shen usually wins when trying to fight Zeri, with a 56.2% win rate. As a result, Shen makes a fantastic counter for Zeri.
While Shen does have a much higher win rate compared to Zeri, when facing one another, Shen also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Shen into Zeri.
Moreover, Shen has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zeri. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shen vs Zeri matchups, Shen is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shen is a great counter for Zeri. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Shen against Zeri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen to counter Zeri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shen usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Zeri. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Shen versus Zeri build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Zeri than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 56.2% battling Zeri with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Zeri as Shen, Shen players should use 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 Zeri matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 56.2% win rate overall.
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