Skarner with Shen
How to Synergize Skarner and Shen
based on 191 Skarner with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Shen Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Shen
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Shen
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Advice to Understand How Shen Will Play
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.
Skarner Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Skarner sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shen helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is an ally to Shen, he sees a noticable increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Shen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Shen 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 with Shen.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Shen on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Skarner in team fights.
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top synergy for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Shen is a terrible teammate for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he drops their win rate by -4.3% to 44.0%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Skarner and Shen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Shen teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Skarner and Shen together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Skarner to synergize with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Skarner and Shen synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Shen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Skarner boasted an average win rate of 44.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Skarner and Shen pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.0% win rate overall.
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