Leona with Shen
How to Synergize Leona and Shen
based on 1,944 Leona with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Shen Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Shen
Tips for Playing as Leona with Shen
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona 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 decrease shows that Shen helps Leona perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona plays on the same team as Shen, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Shen supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Shen on the same side, 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.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Shen on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Shen does a decent job of covering Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best champion pairing for Leona that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, Shen is a very typical ally for Leona. By locking into the same side as Leona, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 53.0%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Leona and Shen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Shen comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Leona and Shen together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Leona to synergize with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Leona and Shen synergy build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Shen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 53.0% when playing alongside Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Leona and Shen pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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