Shen with Tristana
How to Synergize Shen and Tristana
based on 2,197 Shen with Tristana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Shen with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Shen Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Shen in LoL
The Shen Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Tristana helps Shen perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen tries to synergize with Tristana, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Tristana does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played together with Tristana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Tristana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Tristana.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Tristana on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no ideal ally for Shen that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Tristana is a relatively poor teammate for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 48.2%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Shen and Tristana that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players don't need to be careful when enlisting Tristana allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Shen and Tristana together, you will not be providing your other allies much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tristana ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to synergize with Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Shen and Tristana synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Tristana than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Shen players should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Shen and Tristana pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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