Nilah with Shen
How to Synergize Nilah and Shen
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Nilah Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nilah and Shen
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.
Nilah Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Nilah in LoL
The Nilah 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, Nilah sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Nilah perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nilah is paired with Shen, they gets a clear improvement in their complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Shen helps provide cover for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nilah is played together with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Moreover, when Nilah plays with Shen on the same team, they often receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Shen does a poor job of protecting Nilah in team fights.
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Is Nilah better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top champion pairing for Nilah that will always be their #1 ally. However, Shen is a top-tier ally for Nilah. By being on the same team as Nilah, he increases their win rate by 3.1% to 55.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a very strong bond between Nilah and Shen that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Nilah. That means Nilah players don't need to be careful when arranging Shen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Nilah players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Nilah and Shen together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen ally, you should focus on increasing 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
To truly master Nilah in order to synergize with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Nilah and Shen synergy build include Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah used at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better as an ally of Shen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nilah had an average win rate of 55.2% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Shen with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.2% winrate overall.
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