Lux vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Lux
based on 5,438 Lux vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Shyvana
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Lux vs. Shyvana counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Lux normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Shyvana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Lux or Shyvana?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when taking on Shyvana, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Lux makes an ok counter for Shyvana.
While Lux does have a lower winrate than Shyvana, when they face off with one another, Lux also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Lux into Shyvana.
Moreover, Lux 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lux vs Shyvana matchups, Shyvana is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Lux is a somewhat poor counter for Shyvana. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lux against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lux in order to counter Shyvana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Shyvana. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Lux versus Shyvana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Lux incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Shyvana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 49.6% battling Shyvana with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Shyvana as Lux, Lux players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Lux vs Shyvana counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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