Ryze with Shen
How to Synergize Ryze and Shen
based on 486 Ryze with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ryze Shen Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Shen
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Shen
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze 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, Ryze sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shen helps Ryze perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze plays on the same team as Shen, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Shen provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Additionally, when Ryze plays with Shen on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Shen does a decent job of protecting Ryze in team fights.
Synergies between Ryze and Shen
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Shen?
There is no perfect synergy for Ryze that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Shen is a pretty good companion for Ryze. By locking into the same side as Ryze, he raises their win rate by 2.6% to 51.6%. This proves that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Ryze and Shen that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Ryze. That means Ryze players don't need to be careful when lining up Shen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Ryze players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Ryze and Shen together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ryze to synergize with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Ryze and Shen synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Shen than with most other common builds. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 51.6% when playing alongside Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Ryze players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Ryze and Shen pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
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