Kindred with Shen
How to Synergize Kindred and Shen
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Kindred Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Shen
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Shen
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Kindred perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kindred plays on the same team as Shen, they sees a marginal improvement in their full damage dealt. This change may signal that Shen helps provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played together with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Moreover, when Kindred plays with Shen on the same team, they on average receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Shen does a poor job of covering Kindred during team fights.
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best companion for Kindred that will no matter what be their top teammate. However, overall, Shen is a very typical ally for Kindred. By playing on the same team as Kindred, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 47.9%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Kindred and Shen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Kindred. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Shen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Kindred and Shen together, you will not be giving your other allies enough magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To truly master Kindred to work well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Kindred and Shen synergy build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Kindred used at least these three finished items in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Shen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Kindred players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Kindred and Shen pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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