Shen with Bard
How to Synergize Shen and Bard
based on 1,581 Shen with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Bard Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Bard
Tips for Playing as Shen with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Shen Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Shen in LoL
The Shen Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Shen perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Bard, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Bard provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Bard on the same team, 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 Bard.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Bard on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal companion for Shen that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Bard is a decent teammate for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 51.2%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Shen and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Bard allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, Shen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by pairing Shen and Bard together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To truly master Shen to work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Shen and Bard synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 51.2% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Shen players 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Bard with Shen are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.