Thresh with Shen
How to Synergize Thresh and Shen
based on 2,097 Thresh with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Shen Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Shen
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Shen
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Thresh perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh plays on the same team as Shen, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Shen provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played alongside Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shen.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Shen on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Shen does a decent job of covering Thresh during team fights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best ally for Thresh that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Shen is a relatively poor companion for Thresh. By being on the same team as Thresh, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 46.8%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Thresh and Shen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means Thresh players don't need to be cautious when finding Shen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Thresh players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Thresh and Shen together, you probably will not be granting your team much AD. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Thresh in order to pair well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Thresh and Shen synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Shen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 46.8% helping carry Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Thresh and Shen pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Shen with Thresh are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.