Shen with Yorick
How to Synergize Shen and Yorick
based on 477 Shen with Yorick pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Shen with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Shen Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Shen in LoL
The Shen Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Yorick helps Shen perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Yorick, he sees a big decrease in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Yorick doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yorick.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Yorick on the same side, he often takes less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Shen during team fights.
Synergies between Shen and Yorick
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Is Shen better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no ideal companion for Shen that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Yorick is a top-tier teammate for Shen. By being on the same side as Shen, he raises their win rate by 3.3% to 53.0%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong synergy between Shen and Yorick that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you should be cautious when finding Yorick teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Shen and Yorick together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Yorick ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Shen and Yorick synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Yorick than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shen had an average win rate of 53.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yorick 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for Shen and Yorick pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Yorick with Shen are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.