Shen with Garen
How to Synergize Shen and Garen
based on 661 Shen with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Garen Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Garen
Tips for Playing as Shen with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Shen Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Shen in LoL
The Shen Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Shen perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Garen, he gets a noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Garen does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Garen 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 with Garen.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Garen on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Garen does a decent job of covering Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal ally for Shen that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Garen is a decent ally for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 51.0%. This proves that there is a good bond between Shen and Garen that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players need to be careful when enlisting Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Shen and Garen together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen to pair well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Shen and Garen synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 51.0% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Shen players 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 rune builds that we analyzed for Shen and Garen pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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