Shen with Nidalee
How to Synergize Shen and Nidalee
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Shen Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Shen with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Shen Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Shen in LoL
The Shen Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Shen perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Nidalee, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Nidalee doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Nidalee on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no ideal ally for Shen that will always be his ideal ally. However, Nidalee is a very bad teammate for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, she drops their win rate by -6.2% to 43.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible synergy between Shen and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means you need to be very careful when finding Nidalee comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Shen and Nidalee together, you will not be giving your other teammates much sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to pair well with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Shen and Nidalee synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Nidalee than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 43.5% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Nidalee with Shen are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.