Akali with Shen
How to Synergize Akali and Shen
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Akali Shen Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Shen
Tips for Playing as Akali with Shen
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Shen Will Play
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.
Akali Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Akali in LoL
The Akali Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Akali perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali plays on the same team as Shen, she gets a small increase in her total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Shen supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Shen.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Shen on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Shen does a decent job of covering Akali during teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect synergy for Akali that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, Shen is a very typical ally for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.1%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Akali and Shen that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be cautious when arranging Shen comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Akali and Shen together, you will not be providing your side enough sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akali to synergize with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Akali and Shen synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Shen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Akali players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Shen with Akali are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.