Shen with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Shen and Kog'Maw
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Shen Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Shen with Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Shen Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Shen in LoL
The Shen Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kog'Maw helps Shen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen tries to synergize with Kog'Maw, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Kog'Maw doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Kog'Maw 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 alongside Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Shen that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Kog'Maw is a very typical teammate for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 49.4%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Shen and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Kog'Maw teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Shen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Shen and Kog'Maw together, you may not be giving your other allies very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kog'Maw ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 in order to work well with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Shen and Kog'Maw synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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