Shen with Kassadin
How to Synergize Shen and Kassadin
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Shen Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Shen with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Shen Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Shen in LoL
The Shen Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kassadin helps Shen perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Kassadin, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Kassadin does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Kassadin 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 synergisticly with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Kassadin on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kassadin does a decent job of protecting Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no top ally for Shen that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Kassadin is a not very good companion for Shen. By locking into the same side as Shen, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 47.7%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Shen and Kassadin that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kassadin has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players must be careful when lining up Kassadin allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Shen and Kassadin together, you may not be giving your other teammates much attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen to synergize with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Shen and Kassadin synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Kassadin than with many other typical builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 47.7% helping carry Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating 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. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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