Shen with Fiddlesticks
How to Synergize Shen and Fiddlesticks
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Shen Fiddlesticks Synergy Summary
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Tips for Playing as Shen with Fiddlesticks
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 Fiddlesticks Synergy Stats
How to Play with Fiddlesticks as Shen in LoL
The Shen Fiddlesticks synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Fiddlesticks, 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 Fiddlesticks. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Fiddlesticks helps Shen perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Fiddlesticks, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Fiddlesticks provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Fiddlesticks on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Fiddlesticks.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Fiddlesticks on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Fiddlesticks does a poor job of protecting Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Fiddlesticks?
There is no ideal ally for Shen that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Fiddlesticks is a relatively poor teammate for Shen. By locking into the same side as Shen, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 48.3%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Shen and Fiddlesticks that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Fiddlesticks has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means you should be careful when enlisting Fiddlesticks allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Shen and Fiddlesticks together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Fiddlesticks teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shen in order to work well with Fiddlesticks during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Shen and Fiddlesticks synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Fiddlesticks than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Fiddlesticks with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating 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. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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