Alistar with Shen
How to Synergize Alistar and Shen
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Alistar Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Shen
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Shen
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Shen, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Shen does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Shen on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Shen does a decent job of protecting Alistar in team fights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Alistar that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Shen is a very typical ally for Alistar. By being on the same team as Alistar, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Alistar and Shen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be very careful when arranging Shen allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Alistar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Alistar and Shen together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to work well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Alistar and Shen synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Alistar and Shen pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Shen with Alistar are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.