Shen with Samira
How to Synergize Shen and Samira
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Shen Samira Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Samira
Tips for Playing as Shen with Samira
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 Samira Synergy Stats
How to Play with Samira as Shen in LoL
The Shen Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Samira helps Shen perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is an ally to Samira, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Samira doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Samira on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Samira. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Samira.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Samira on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Samira does a decent job of covering Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Samira?
There is no top synergy for Shen that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Samira is a very typical companion for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 49.4%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Shen and Samira that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Samira has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you should be cautious when arranging Samira comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Shen and Samira together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Samira ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shen to pair well with Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Shen and Samira synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Shen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Samira than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shen boasted an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Samira with Shen are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.