Annie with Shen
How to Synergize Annie and Shen
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Annie Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Shen
Tips for Playing as Annie with Shen
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Annie perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is an ally to Shen, she observes a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Shen helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Shen on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Shen does a decent job of protecting Annie in teamfights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect ally for Annie that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Shen is a very typical companion for Annie. By playing on the same side as Annie, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 48.3%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Annie and Shen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Shen comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Annie players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Annie and Shen together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to pair well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Annie and Shen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Shen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Annie boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when playing alongside Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Annie players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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