Viktor with Shen
How to Synergize Viktor and Shen
based on 948 Viktor with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Shen Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Shen
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Shen
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Viktor perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor is paired with Shen, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Shen supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played alongside Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Shen on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Shen does a decent job of covering Viktor in teamfights.
Synergies between Viktor and Shen
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top companion for Viktor that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Shen is a relatively poor ally for Viktor. By playing on the same team as Viktor, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Viktor and Shen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Viktor. That means Viktor players don't need to be very careful when finding Shen teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Viktor players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Viktor and Shen together, you probably will not be giving your side much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Viktor to synergize with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Viktor and Shen synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Shen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Viktor boasted an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Viktor players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Viktor and Shen pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Shen with Viktor are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.