Shen with Thresh
How to Synergize Shen and Thresh
based on 2,097 Shen with Thresh pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Shen with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Shen Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Shen in LoL
The Shen Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Thresh helps Shen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen tries to synergize with Thresh, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Thresh helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Thresh on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Thresh.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Thresh on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Thresh does a decent job of covering Shen during team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no top champion pairing for Shen that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Thresh is a below average teammate for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, he drops their win rate by -2.9% to 46.8%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Shen and Thresh that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Thresh has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players should be careful when arranging Thresh teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Shen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by grouping Shen and Thresh together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen to work well with Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Shen and Thresh synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Thresh than with many other common builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 46.8% helping carry Thresh with this build.
To have the greatest 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 sets players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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