Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The stats shown on this page feature several important Lissandra vs. Shyvana matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Shyvana..
Lissandra normally has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Shyvana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when trying to fight Shyvana, with a 47.3% win rate. Thus, Lissandra makes a poor counter to Shyvana.
While Lissandra does have a lower winrate than Shyvana, when facing one another, Lissandra also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Lissandra into Shyvana.
Furthermore, Lissandra also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shyvana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Shyvana matchups, Shyvana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Lissandra is a bad counter to Shyvana. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lissandra against Shyvana.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to counter Shyvana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra most often picks up more CS relative to Shyvana. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Lissandra versus Shyvana build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Shyvana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 47.3% when countering Shyvana with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Shyvana as Lissandra, Lissandra players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Lissandra vs Shyvana counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Shyvana as Lissandra are given for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.