Illaoi vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Illaoi
based on 1,064 Illaoi vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Shyvana
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Win Against Shyvana
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Illaoi vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several valuable Illaoi vs. Shyvana counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Shyvana..
Illaoi normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Shyvana. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Shyvana?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when facing off against Shyvana, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Shyvana.
While Illaoi does have a lower win rate compared to Shyvana, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Shyvana.
Additionally, Illaoi has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Shyvana matchups, Shyvana is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter to Shyvana. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Illaoi in order to counter Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually picks up more CS relative to Shyvana. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Illaoi versus Shyvana build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Shyvana than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 49.3% battling Shyvana with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Shyvana as Illaoi, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Illaoi vs Shyvana counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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