Leona vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Leona
based on 1,993 Leona vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Shyvana
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some vital Leona versus Shyvana counter stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Shyvana. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Leona or Shyvana?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when taking on Shyvana, with a 53.8% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a great counter for Shyvana.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Shyvana, when facing one another, Leona also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Shyvana.
Furthermore, Leona has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Shyvana matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Leona is a great counter to Shyvana. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona in order to counter Shyvana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona on average picks up less CS compared to Shyvana. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Leona versus Shyvana build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Shyvana than with most other typical builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 53.8% battling Shyvana with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Shyvana as Leona, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Leona vs Shyvana fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.8% winrate overall.
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