Kai'Sa with Shen
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Shen
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Kai'Sa Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Shen
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Shen
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kai'Sa sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Kai'Sa perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kai'Sa tries to synergize with Shen, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This may demonstrate that Shen supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played together with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Moreover, when Kai'Sa plays with Shen on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Shen does a decent job of covering Kai'Sa during teamfights.
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Kai'Sa that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Shen is a very typical companion for Kai'Sa. By being on the same side as Kai'Sa, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 45.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Kai'Sa and Shen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means Kai'Sa players don't need to be very careful when arranging Shen teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Kai'Sa players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Kai'Sa and Shen together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 Kai'Sa in order to work well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Kai'Sa and Shen synergy build include Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other common builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average win rate of 45.9% helping carry Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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