Thresh vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Thresh
based on 2,532 Thresh vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Shen
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Thresh in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some vital Thresh vs. Shen counter statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Shen..
Thresh often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Shen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Shen
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Who is Better, Thresh or Shen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when playing against Shen, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a bad counter to Shen.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate compared to Shen, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Thresh into Shenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh has a very large amount of utility and CC, 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 overall in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Shen matchups, Shen is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Thresh is a trash counter for Shen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Thresh 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh on average gets a lot less CS relative to Shen. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Thresh versus Shen build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Shen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 47.9% when playing against Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Shen as Thresh, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Thresh vs Shen clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
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