Graves with Shen
How to Synergize Graves and Shen
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Graves Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Shen
Tips for Playing as Graves with Shen
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Graves perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Shen, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Shen supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with 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 alongside Shen.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Shen on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Shen does a decent job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal companion for Graves that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Shen is a very typical teammate for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 50.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Graves and Shen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Shen has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Shen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Graves players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Graves and Shen together, you may not be granting your other allies enough AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to synergize with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Graves and Shen synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Maw of Malmortius, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Shen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Graves and Shen pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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