Shyvana vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Shyvana
based on 757 Shyvana vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Shyvana vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Shyvana in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several influential Shyvana vs. Azir matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Azir..
Shyvana often has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Azir. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shyvana and Azir
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Azir?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Azir, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Shyvana makes an ok counter to Azir.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate compared to Azir, when they face off with one another, Shyvana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Azir.
Moreover, Shyvana has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a somewhat poor counter for Azir. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shyvana against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana to counter Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana often picks up less CS relative to Azir. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Shyvana versus Azir build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Azir than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 49.5% battling Azir with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Azir as Shyvana, you should use 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 sets players picked for Shyvana vs Azir counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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