Wukong with Shen
How to Synergize Wukong and Shen
based on 488 Wukong with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Wukong Shen Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Shen
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Shen
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong 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, Wukong sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Wukong perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Wukong is paired with Shen, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Shen helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Moreover, when Wukong plays with Shen on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Shen does a poor job of covering Wukong during teamfights.
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best companion for Wukong that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Shen is a decent ally for Wukong. By being on the same team as Wukong, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Wukong and Shen that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Shen has a greater difficulty than Wukong. That means Wukong players must be careful when finding Shen comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Wukong players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Wukong and Shen together, you probably will not be giving your team very much magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Wukong in order to synergize with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Wukong and Shen synergy build include Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Shen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Wukong had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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