Gnar with Shen
How to Synergize Gnar and Shen
based on 151 Gnar with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Shen Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Shen
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Shen
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar 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, Gnar 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 fall shows that Shen helps Gnar perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Shen, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Shen supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Shen on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Shen does a poor job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best synergy for Gnar that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Shen is a very bad teammate for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, he drops their win rate by -4.3% to 43.7%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible synergy between Gnar and Shen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Shen teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Gnar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Shen together, you will not be granting your other allies very much magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar in order to synergize with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Gnar and Shen synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Gnar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Shen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 43.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.7% winrate overall.
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