Rek'Sai with Shen
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Shen
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Rek'Sai Shen Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Shen
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Shen
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Rek'Sai perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rek'Sai is paired with Shen, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This could signal that Shen helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Moreover, when Rek'Sai plays with Shen on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Shen does a poor job of protecting Rek'Sai during team fights.
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal synergy for Rek'Sai that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Shen is a very bad companion for Rek'Sai. By locking into the same side as Rek'Sai, he drops their win rate by -4.7% to 43.7%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Rek'Sai and Shen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a greater difficulty than Rek'Sai. That means Rek'Sai players should be careful when finding Shen teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Rek'Sai and Shen together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Rek'Sai to work well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Rek'Sai and Shen synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Shen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Rek'Sai had an average winrate of 43.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.7% win rate overall.
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