Shen with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Shen and Rek'Sai
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Shen Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Shen with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Shen Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Shen in LoL
The Shen Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rek'Sai helps Shen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen tries to synergize with Rek'Sai, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Rek'Sai helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Rek'Sai 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 alongside Rek'Sai.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Rek'Sai on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Rek'Sai does a poor job of covering Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no ideal ally for Shen that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Rek'Sai is a terrible ally for Shen. By being on the same team as Shen, he drops their win rate by -6.0% to 43.7%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Shen and Rek'Sai that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Rek'Sai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Shen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Shen and Rek'Sai together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Rek'Sai teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen in order to work well with Rek'Sai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Shen and Rek'Sai synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with many other typical builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 43.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Shen players 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 players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.7% winrate overall.
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