Shen with Akshan
How to Synergize Shen and Akshan
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Shen Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Shen with Akshan
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.
Advice to Understand How Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Shen Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Shen in LoL
The Shen Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shen sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akshan helps Shen perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen plays on the same team as Akshan, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Akshan does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Akshan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akshan.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Akshan on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Akshan does a poor job of covering Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no top ally for Shen that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Akshan is a below average teammate for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, they drops their win rate by -1.1% to 48.6%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Shen and Akshan that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Shen. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Akshan teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Shen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Shen and Akshan together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen in order to pair well with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Shen and Akshan synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Akshan than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 48.6% helping carry Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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