Sona with Shen
How to Synergize Sona and Shen
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Sona Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Shen
Tips for Playing as Sona with Shen
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
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.
Sona Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Sona in LoL
The Sona Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Sona perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona plays on the same team as Shen, she gets a small increase in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Shen provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played together with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Moreover, when Sona plays with Shen on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Sona during teamfights.
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Is Sona better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal companion for Sona that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Shen is a very typical companion for Sona. By being on the same side as Sona, he improves their win rate by 0.2% to 50.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Sona and Shen that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Shen comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Sona and Shen together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Sona to pair well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Sona and Shen synergy build consist of Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Sona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Shen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sona had an average winrate of 50.6% helping carry Shen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Sona players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Shen with Sona are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.