Shen with Zilean
How to Synergize Shen and Zilean
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Shen Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Shen with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Shen Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Shen in LoL
The Shen Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Shen perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen is paired with Zilean, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Zilean helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played alongside Zilean 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 synergisticly with Zilean.
Additionally, when Shen plays with Zilean on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Shen that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Zilean is a very typical companion for Shen. By playing on the same team as Shen, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Shen and Zilean that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means Shen players need to be careful when enlisting Zilean comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by grouping Shen and Zilean together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shen to work well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Shen and Zilean synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Shen players should take 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 this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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