Shen with Katarina
How to Synergize Shen and Katarina
based on 2,337 Shen with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Shen with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Shen Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Shen in LoL
The Shen Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Shen perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Katarina, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Katarina does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Katarina on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect ally for Shen that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Katarina is a not very good companion for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, she decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 47.8%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Shen and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players should be careful when enlisting Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Shen and Katarina together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen in order to synergize with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Shen and Katarina synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other common builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Shen and Katarina pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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