Shen with Nilah
How to Synergize Shen and Nilah
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Shen Nilah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Shen with Nilah
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.
Shen Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Shen in LoL
The Shen Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nilah helps Shen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Nilah, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Nilah helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Nilah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nilah.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Nilah on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nilah does a decent job of covering Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Shen that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Nilah is a fantastic teammate for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, they increases their win rate by 5.5% to 55.2%. This signals that there is a very strong bond between Shen and Nilah that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players must be very careful when arranging Nilah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Shen players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Shen and Nilah together, you may not be granting your other teammates much AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shen to work well with Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Shen and Nilah synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Nilah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 55.2% helping carry Nilah with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating 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. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.2% winrate overall.
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