Shen with Maokai
How to Synergize Shen and Maokai
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Shen Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Shen with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Shen Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Shen in LoL
The Shen Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Shen perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Maokai, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Maokai helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Maokai 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 with Maokai.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Maokai on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Shen that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a very typical ally for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Shen and Maokai that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Shen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Shen and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen to work well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Shen and Maokai synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Shen players should take 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 used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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