Olaf with Shen
How to Synergize Olaf and Shen
based on 206 Olaf with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Shen Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Shen
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Shen
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf 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, Olaf 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 Olaf perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf plays on the same team as Shen, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Shen does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played alongside Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Shen on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Shen does a poor job of covering Olaf during team fights.
Synergies between Olaf and Shen
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Olaf that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Shen is a very bad teammate for Olaf. By playing on the same side as Olaf, he drops their win rate by -3.9% to 45.1%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Olaf and Shen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Shen has a greater difficulty than Olaf. That means you should be very careful when arranging Shen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Olaf players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Olaf and Shen together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Olaf to work well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Olaf and Shen synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Death's Dance. When Olaf used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Shen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Olaf had an average winrate of 45.1% helping carry Shen with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Olaf players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.1% win rate overall.
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