Samira vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Samira
based on 2,467 Samira vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Samira
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.
Samira vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Samira in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Samira against Shyvana matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Samira often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Shyvana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Samira and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Samira or Shyvana?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Samira usually fairs equally well when facing off against Shyvana, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Samira makes an ok counter for Shyvana.
While Samira does have a lower winrate than Shyvana, when they face off with one another, Samira also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Samira into Shyvana.
Additionally, Samira also 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 facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Samira 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 teammates during team fights.
Samira is a somewhat poor counter for Shyvana. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Samira against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira in order to counter Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira most often racks up more CS as Shyvana. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Samira versus Shyvana build include Infinity Edge, The Collector, and Hubris. When Samira included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Shyvana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when countering Shyvana with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Shyvana as Samira, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Samira vs Shyvana battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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