Gragas with Shen
How to Synergize Gragas and Shen
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Gragas Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Shen
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Shen
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Gragas perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is an ally to Shen, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Shen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Shen on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Shen does a poor job of protecting Gragas during team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal synergy for Gragas that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Shen is a below average teammate for Gragas. By being on the same side as Gragas, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 46.7%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Gragas and Shen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be cautious when arranging Shen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Gragas and Shen together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much AD. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas to work well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gragas and Shen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Shen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 46.7% helping carry Shen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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