Jarvan IV with Shen
How to Synergize Jarvan IV and Shen
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Jarvan IV Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jarvan IV and Shen
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV with Shen
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize 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.
Jarvan IV Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Jarvan IV in LoL
The Jarvan IV 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, Jarvan IV sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Jarvan IV perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jarvan IV is paired with Shen, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Shen provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Jarvan IV is played with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Jarvan IV plays with Shen on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Shen does a decent job of protecting Jarvan IV during teamfights.
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Is Jarvan IV better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect synergy for Jarvan IV that will always be his #1 ally. However, Shen is a pretty good ally for Jarvan IV. By locking into the same team as Jarvan IV, he raises their win rate by 1.7% to 50.3%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Jarvan IV and Shen that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Jarvan IV. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Shen teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Jarvan IV players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Jarvan IV and Shen together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Jarvan IV to work well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Jarvan IV and Shen synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Shen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Jarvan IV boasted an average win rate of 50.3% helping carry Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Jarvan IV players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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