Shen with Diana
How to Synergize Shen and Diana
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Shen Diana Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Diana
Tips for Playing as Shen with Diana
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 Diana Will Play
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
Shen Diana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Diana as Shen in LoL
The Shen Diana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Diana, 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 Diana. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Diana helps Shen perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Diana, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Diana does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Diana 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 with Diana.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Diana on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Diana does a decent job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Diana?
There is no one best synergy for Shen that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Diana is a decent ally for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, she improves their win rate by 1.8% to 51.5%. This proves that there is a good synergy between Shen and Diana that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Diana has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Diana allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Shen players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Shen and Diana together, you will not be giving your team enough attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Diana teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to synergize with Diana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Shen and Diana synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Shen combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Diana than with many other common builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Diana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Diana with Shen are given for every ranked division. To filter the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.