Shen with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Shen and Nunu & Willump
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Shen Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Shen with Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump Will Play
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Shen Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Shen in LoL
The Shen Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nunu & Willump helps Shen perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen tries to synergize with Nunu & Willump, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Nunu & Willump helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no perfect synergy for Shen that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Nunu & Willump is a very bad ally for Shen. By locking into the same side as Shen, he decreases their win rate by -4.2% to 45.5%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Shen and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nunu & Willump comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Shen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Shen and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen in order to synergize with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Shen and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 45.5% when playing alongside Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against 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 runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.5% winrate overall.
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