Samira with Shen
How to Synergize Samira and Shen
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Samira Shen Synergy Summary
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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.
Samira Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Samira in LoL
The Samira 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, Samira sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shen helps Samira perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Samira is an ally to Shen, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Shen supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Shen on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Shen does a decent job of protecting Samira in teamfights.
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Is Samira better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Samira that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, overall, Shen is a very typical teammate for Samira. By locking into the same side as Samira, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 49.4%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Samira and Shen that results in them performing better together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Shen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Samira and Shen together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen ally, you need to focus on maximizing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Samira to pair well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Samira and Shen synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Shen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
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