Zyra with Shen
How to Synergize Zyra and Shen
based on 2,445 Zyra with Shen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zyra Shen Synergy Summary
Best Zyra vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zyra and Shen
Tips for Playing as Zyra with Shen
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Zyra in LoL
The Zyra 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, Zyra sees a large worsening 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 Zyra perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zyra is an ally to Shen, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Shen provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zyra 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 alongside Shen.
Additionally, when Zyra plays with Shen on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Shen does a poor job of protecting Zyra in teamfights.
Synergies between Zyra and Shen
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Is Zyra better when played alongside Shen?
There is no top companion for Zyra that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. Yet, Shen is a relatively poor ally for Zyra. By locking into the same side as Zyra, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 50.7%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Zyra and Shen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Zyra. That means Zyra players don't need to be careful when finding Shen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Zyra players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Zyra and Shen together, you will not be granting your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Shen ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Zyra to work well with Shen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Zyra and Shen synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Shen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zyra had an average win rate of 50.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Zyra players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Zyra and Shen pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
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