Shen with Malzahar
How to Synergize Shen and Malzahar
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Shen Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Shen with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Shen Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Shen in LoL
The Shen Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Malzahar helps Shen perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is an ally to Malzahar, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Malzahar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Malzahar on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no top companion for Shen that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Shen. By locking into the same side as Shen, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Shen and Malzahar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you should be cautious when arranging Malzahar teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Shen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Shen and Malzahar together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shen in order to synergize with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Shen and Malzahar synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing alongside Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 builds players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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