Shen with Briar
How to Synergize Shen and Briar
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Shen Briar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Briar
Tips for Playing as Shen with Briar
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.
Shen Briar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Briar as Shen in LoL
The Shen Briar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Briar, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Briar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Briar helps Shen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is paired with Briar, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This may indicate that Briar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Briar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Briar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Briar.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Briar on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Briar does a decent job of covering Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Briar?
There is no top companion for Shen that will always be his top ally. Yet, Briar is a fantastic teammate for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, they increases their win rate by 4.1% to 53.8%. This shows that there is a very strong bond between Shen and Briar that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Briar has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Briar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Shen and Briar together, you may not be giving your team enough AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Briar ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Shen to work well with Briar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Shen and Briar synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Shen used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Briar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 53.8% helping carry Briar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 sets players chose for Shen and Briar pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.8% winrate overall.
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