Katarina with Shen
How to Synergize Katarina and Shen
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Katarina Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Shen
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Shen
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina 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 negative change shows that Shen helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is an ally to Shen, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Shen provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Shen.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Shen on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Katarina during team fights.
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top champion pairing for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, overall, Shen is a very typical ally for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 47.8%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Katarina and Shen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Shen comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Katarina and Shen together, you may not be giving your other allies enough sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina to work well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Katarina and Shen synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Katarina and Shen pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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