Orianna with Shen
How to Synergize Orianna and Shen
based on 973 Orianna with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Orianna Shen Synergy Summary
Best Orianna vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Orianna and Shen
Tips for Playing as Orianna with Shen
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Orianna in LoL
The Orianna 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, Orianna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Orianna perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna is paired with Shen, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Shen helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played together with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Shen on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Shen does a poor job of protecting Orianna during team fights.
Synergies between Orianna and Shen
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Is Orianna better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best ally for Orianna that will always be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Shen is a good companion for Orianna. By locking into the same team as Orianna, he increases their win rate by 2.1% to 49.6%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Orianna and Shen that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Orianna. That means Orianna players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Shen teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Orianna and Shen together, you may not be giving your side enough AD. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Shen teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Orianna in order to pair well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Orianna and Shen synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Shen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 49.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Shen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Orianna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Orianna and Shen pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Shen with Orianna are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.