Shen with Wukong
How to Synergize Shen and Wukong
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Shen Wukong Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Shen with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Shen Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Shen in LoL
The Shen Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Wukong helps Shen perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen plays on the same team as Wukong, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Wukong provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Wukong 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 Wukong.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Wukong on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Wukong does a poor job of covering Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shen that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Wukong is a very typical ally for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, he improves their win rate by 0.9% to 50.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Shen and Wukong that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Wukong has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players don't need to be very careful when arranging Wukong teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Shen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Shen and Wukong together, you probably will not be giving your team enough magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Wukong ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 pair well with Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Shen and Wukong synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Wukong than with most other common builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Wukong with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating 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 runes players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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