Shen with Gragas
How to Synergize Shen and Gragas
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Shen Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Shen with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Shen Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Shen in LoL
The Shen Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gragas helps Shen perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is an ally to Gragas, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Gragas helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Gragas on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Gragas does a decent job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Shen that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Gragas is a relatively poor teammate for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he drops their win rate by -3.0% to 46.7%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Shen and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players must be cautious when enlisting Gragas allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Shen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Shen and Gragas together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen to synergize with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Shen and Gragas synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Gragas than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 46.7% when playing alongside Gragas with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Shen players 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. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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