Shen with K'Sante
How to Synergize Shen and K'Sante
based on 225 Shen with K'Sante pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen K'Sante Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Shen with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Shen K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Shen in LoL
The Shen K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that K'Sante helps Shen perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is an ally to K'Sante, he gets a large drop in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that K'Sante does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with K'Sante.
Moreover, when Shen plays with K'Sante on the same side, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that K'Sante does a decent job of covering Shen during teamfights.
Synergies between Shen and K'Sante
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Is Shen better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no top champion pairing for Shen that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, K'Sante is a very typical companion for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, they lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 48.9%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Shen and K'Sante that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
K'Sante has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players should be careful when finding K'Sante teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Shen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Shen and K'Sante together, you will not be granting your other allies much magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your K'Sante teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 pair well with K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Shen and K'Sante synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of K'Sante than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to K'Sante with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip 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 players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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