Shen with Illaoi
How to Synergize Shen and Illaoi
based on 304 Shen with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Shen with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Shen Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Shen in LoL
The Shen Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Illaoi helps Shen perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Illaoi, he sees a large drop in his full damage output. This could indicate that Illaoi does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Illaoi 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 synergisticly with Illaoi.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Illaoi on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Illaoi does a decent job of covering Shen in teamfights.
Synergies between Shen and Illaoi
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Is Shen better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no perfect synergy for Shen that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Illaoi is a very typical teammate for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, she decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 49.0%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Shen and Illaoi that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players don't need to be careful when enlisting Illaoi teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Shen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by grouping Shen and Illaoi together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Illaoi ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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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 Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Shen and Illaoi synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Illaoi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when playing alongside Illaoi with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Shen players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Shen and Illaoi pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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