Volibear with Shen
How to Synergize Volibear and Shen
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Volibear Shen Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Shen
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.
Volibear Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a large worsening 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 Volibear perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear is paired with Shen, he gets a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Shen doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played together with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Shen.
Additionally, when Volibear plays with Shen on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Shen does a decent job of covering Volibear during team fights.
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Volibear that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Shen is a very typical ally for Volibear. By being on the same side as Volibear, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 47.5%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Volibear and Shen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a greater difficulty than Volibear. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Shen allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Volibear players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by bringing Volibear and Shen together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Volibear to synergize with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Volibear and Shen synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Shen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Volibear boasted an average win rate of 47.5% helping carry Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Shen with Volibear are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.