Shen with Nasus
How to Synergize Shen and Nasus
based on 572 Shen with Nasus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Shen with Nasus
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 Nasus Will Play
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Shen Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Shen in LoL
The Shen Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, 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 Nasus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nasus helps Shen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen plays on the same team as Nasus, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nasus does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Nasus on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Nasus.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Nasus on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nasus does a decent job of protecting Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shen that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Nasus is a very typical ally for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, he improves their win rate by 0.6% to 50.3%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Shen and Nasus that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Nasus has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you need to be careful when arranging Nasus comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Shen and Nasus together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nasus ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shen to work well with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Shen and Nasus synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Nasus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 50.3% helping carry Nasus with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Shen players 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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