Ziggs with Shen
How to Synergize Ziggs and Shen
based on 947 Ziggs with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ziggs Shen Synergy Summary
Best Ziggs vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ziggs and Shen
Tips for Playing as Ziggs with Shen
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Ziggs in LoL
The Ziggs 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, Ziggs sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Shen helps Ziggs perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ziggs tries to synergize with Shen, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Shen provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played together with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Moreover, when Ziggs plays with Shen on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Shen does a decent job of protecting Ziggs in team fights.
Synergies between Ziggs and Shen
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Is Ziggs better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top champion pairing for Ziggs that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Shen is a very typical teammate for Ziggs. By being on the same team as Ziggs, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Ziggs and Shen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Shen has a lower difficulty than Ziggs. That means Ziggs players don't need to be careful when enlisting Shen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Ziggs players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Ziggs and Shen together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Ziggs in order to work well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Ziggs and Shen synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Shen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 48.2% helping carry Shen with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ziggs and Shen pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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