Vayne vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Vayne
based on 3,827 Vayne vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Shen
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Vayne in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several significant Vayne versus Shen matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champions. Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Shen..
Vayne often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Shen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vayne and Shen
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Who is Better, Vayne or Shen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually wins when taking on Shen, with a 51.2% win rate. As a result, Vayne makes a good counter to Shen.
While Vayne does have a higher win rate than Shen, when facing one another, Vayne also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vayne into Shenas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Shen matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Vayne is a decent counter for Shen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vayne against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vayne in order to counter Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne most often gets a similar amount of CS as Shen. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Vayne versus Shen build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Vayne incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Shen than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vayne boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when playing against Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Shen as Vayne, Vayne players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Vayne vs Shen fights, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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