Shen with Malphite
How to Synergize Shen and Malphite
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Shen Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Shen with Malphite
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 Malphite Will Play
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
Shen Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Shen in LoL
The Shen Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, 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 Malphite. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Malphite helps Shen perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is paired with Malphite, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Malphite does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Malphite 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 Malphite.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Malphite on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malphite does a poor job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Shen that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Malphite is a not very good ally for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, he lowers their win rate by -2.9% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Shen and Malphite that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malphite has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Malphite comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Shen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Shen and Malphite together, you will not be providing your team very much AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 to work well with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Shen and Malphite synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Malphite than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 46.8% helping carry Malphite with this build.
To have the best 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 rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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