Shen with Kayle
How to Synergize Shen and Kayle
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Shen Kayle Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Kayle
Tips for Playing as Shen with Kayle
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 Kayle Will Play
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Shen Kayle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayle as Shen in LoL
The Shen Kayle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayle, 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 Kayle. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kayle helps Shen perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen tries to synergize with Kayle, he sees a noticable drop in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Kayle does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Kayle on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kayle. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayle.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Kayle on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kayle does a decent job of covering Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Kayle?
There is no perfect companion for Shen that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Kayle is a pretty good ally for Shen. By locking into the same side as Shen, she increases their win rate by 2.0% to 51.7%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Shen and Kayle that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Kayle has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players need to be careful when enlisting Kayle allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by grouping Shen and Kayle together, you will not be granting your team a lot of attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kayle ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen to synergize with Kayle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Shen and Kayle synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Kayle than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Kayle with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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