Kai'Sa vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Kai'Sa
based on 2,213 Kai'Sa vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Shyvana
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Kai'Sa vs. Shyvana counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shyvana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Shyvana..
Kai'Sa usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Shyvana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Shyvana?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Shyvana, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Shyvana.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate compared to Shyvana, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Shyvana.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Shyvana matchups, Shyvana is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter for Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often picks up more CS as Shyvana. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Shyvana build include Stormrazor, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kai'Sa bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Shyvana than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Shyvana with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Shyvana as Kai'Sa, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Kai'Sa vs Shyvana matchups, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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