Pantheon with Shen
How to Synergize Pantheon and Shen
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Pantheon Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pantheon and Shen
Tips for Playing as Pantheon with Shen
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
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.
Pantheon Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Pantheon in LoL
The Pantheon 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, Pantheon sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Pantheon perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pantheon tries to synergize with Shen, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Shen provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Pantheon is played alongside Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Pantheon plays with Shen on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Shen does a decent job of covering Pantheon during team fights.
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Is Pantheon better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Pantheon that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Shen is a very typical companion for Pantheon. By being on the same team as Pantheon, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.9%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Pantheon and Shen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Pantheon. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Shen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by aligning Pantheon and Shen together, you will not be giving your other teammates much magic damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should 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 Pantheon in order to work well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Pantheon and Shen synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Pantheon bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Shen than with most other common builds. In fact, Pantheon boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Pantheon and Shen pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Shen with Pantheon are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.