Shen with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Shen and Vel'Koz
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Shen Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Shen with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Shen Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Shen in LoL
The Shen Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Shen perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen is paired with Vel'Koz, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Vel'Koz supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Vel'Koz 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 with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no perfect synergy for Shen that will no matter what be his best ally. However, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, he improves their win rate by 0.2% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Shen and Vel'Koz that results in them performing better together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Shen. That means Shen players need to be cautious when finding Vel'Koz teammates to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Shen and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Shen in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Shen and Vel'Koz synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Shen combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Shen players 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 runes players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
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