Aphelios with Shen
How to Synergize Aphelios and Shen
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Aphelios Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Shen
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Shen
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shen helps Aphelios perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios tries to synergize with Shen, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Shen helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Shen on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Shen does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Shen
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Aphelios that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Shen is a very typical ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 47.9%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Aphelios and Shen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when finding Shen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Aphelios players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Aphelios and Shen together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to pair well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Aphelios and Shen synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Shen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Shen with Aphelios are displayed for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.