Shen with Trundle
How to Synergize Shen and Trundle
based on 1,708 Shen with Trundle pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Trundle Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Trundle
Tips for Playing as Shen with Trundle
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 Trundle Will Play
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
Shen Trundle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Trundle as Shen in LoL
The Shen Trundle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Trundle, 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 Trundle. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Trundle helps Shen perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Trundle, he gets a noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Trundle does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Trundle on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Trundle. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Trundle.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Trundle on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Trundle does a decent job of protecting Shen in team fights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Trundle?
There is no ideal synergy for Shen that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Trundle is a decent companion for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he increases their win rate by 2.1% to 51.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Shen and Trundle that results in them performing better together than alone.
Trundle has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you need to be very careful when finding Trundle teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Shen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Shen and Trundle together, you will not be granting your side a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Trundle ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 in order to synergize with Trundle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Shen and Trundle synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Celestial Opposition. When Shen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Trundle than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when playing alongside Trundle with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should use 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 chose for Shen and Trundle pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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