Shyvana vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Shyvana
based on 1,167 Shyvana vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Aphelios
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Shyvana vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Shyvana in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some important Shyvana vs. Aphelios counter statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between this set of champions. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Shyvana normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. On average, she receives more damage than Aphelios. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Aphelios?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when taking on Aphelios, with a 50.6% win rate. As a result, Shyvana makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Shyvana does have a higher winrate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Shyvana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Shyvana into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Shyvana has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Aphelios matchups, Shyvana is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Shyvana is a decent counter to Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Shyvana against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana often picks up less CS relative to Aphelios. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Shyvana versus Aphelios build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 50.6% battling Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Aphelios as Shyvana, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Shyvana vs Aphelios matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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