Shen with Kennen
How to Synergize Shen and Kennen
based on 389 Shen with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Shen with Kennen
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 Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Shen Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Shen in LoL
The Shen Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, 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 Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kennen helps Shen perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen plays on the same team as Kennen, he sees a noticable drop in his total damage output. This may signal that Kennen doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Kennen on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kennen does a decent job of protecting Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal ally for Shen that will always be his top teammate. However, Kennen is a very typical teammate for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 50.4%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Shen and Kennen that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players don't need to be careful when enlisting Kennen allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Shen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by pairing Shen and Kennen together, you may not be giving your team much attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shen to pair well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Shen and Kennen synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kennen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Shen players 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 we have analyed for Shen and Kennen pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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