Shen with Zed
How to Synergize Shen and Zed
based on 2,189 Shen with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shen Zed Synergy Summary
Best Shen vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Zed
Tips for Playing as Shen with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Shen Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Shen in LoL
The Shen Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Shen perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is an ally to Zed, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Zed supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Zed on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Shen during teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shen that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Zed is a below average ally for Shen. By playing on the same side as Shen, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 47.7%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Shen and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players should be very careful when arranging Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Shen and Zed together, you will not be granting your side enough magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shen to pair well with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Shen and Zed synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 47.7% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Shen players 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 combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.7% winrate overall.
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