Shen with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Shen and Xin Zhao
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Shen Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Shen with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Shen Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Shen in LoL
The Shen Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xin Zhao helps Shen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shen plays on the same team as Xin Zhao, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Xin Zhao does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shen that will always be his ideal ally. However, Xin Zhao is a good teammate for Shen. By being on the same team as Shen, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 51.6%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Shen and Xin Zhao that results in them performing better together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players don't need to be careful when lining up Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Shen and Xin Zhao together, you will not be granting your team much AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold 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
To truly master Shen to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Shen and Xin Zhao synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 51.6% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Shen and Xin Zhao pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
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