Tristana with Shen
How to Synergize Tristana and Shen
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Tristana Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Shen
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Shen
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana 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, Tristana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shen helps Tristana perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tristana tries to synergize with Shen, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Shen supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played alongside Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Shen.
Moreover, when Tristana plays with Shen on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Shen does a poor job of protecting Tristana during team fights.
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Shen?
There is no ideal ally for Tristana that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, Shen is a very typical companion for Tristana. By being on the same side as Tristana, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 48.2%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Tristana and Shen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Tristana. That means Tristana players don't need to be cautious when arranging Shen teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Tristana and Shen together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Tristana in order to pair well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Tristana and Shen synergy build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana included at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Shen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 48.2% helping carry Shen with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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