Xayah with Shen
How to Synergize Xayah and Shen
based on 988 Xayah with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xayah Shen Synergy Summary
Best Xayah vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Shen
Tips for Playing as Xayah with Shen
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Xayah in LoL
The Xayah 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, Xayah sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shen helps Xayah perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah plays on the same team as Shen, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Shen helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played with Shen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Shen on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of covering Xayah in team fights.
Synergies between Xayah and Shen
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Is Xayah better when played alongside Shen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Xayah that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. However, overall, Shen is a very typical teammate for Xayah. By locking into the same side as Xayah, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 47.4%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Xayah and Shen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Xayah. That means Xayah players don't need to be very careful when finding Shen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Xayah players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning Xayah and Shen together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Xayah in order to work well with Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Xayah and Shen synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Shen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 47.4% when playing alongside Shen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Xayah players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Shen with Xayah are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.