Shen with Nocturne
How to Synergize Shen and Nocturne
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Shen Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Shen with Nocturne
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 Nocturne Will Play
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Shen Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Shen in LoL
The Shen Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 Nocturne. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Shen perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen tries to synergize with Nocturne, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Nocturne supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Nocturne on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shen that will always be his top teammate. However, Nocturne is a decent ally for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he raises their win rate by 2.1% to 51.8%. This signals that there is a good bond between Shen and Nocturne that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Nocturne has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Nocturne comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Shen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability 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 grouping Shen and Nocturne together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to work well with Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Shen and Nocturne synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Shen included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing alongside Nocturne with this build.
To have the best chance 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. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Shen and Nocturne pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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