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.
The second hit of Timewinder does more damage than the first; try to avoid it.
Ekko is significantly weaker when his ultimate is down. Watch for the trail he leaves behind to determine if Chronobreak is available.
Ekko's stun zone takes 3 seconds to arm. Watch for the image he creates on cast and try to guess where the zone was placed.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some valuable Shyvana vs. Ekko matchup stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ekko’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Ekko..
Shyvana often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Ekko. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when playing against Ekko, with a 47.3% win rate. Thus, Shyvana makes a bad counter for Ekko.
While Shyvana does have a lower winrate compared to Ekko, when facing one another, Shyvana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Shyvana into Ekko.
Moreover, Shyvana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ekko. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Ekko matchups, Ekko is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Shyvana is a bad counter for Ekko. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Ekko.
If you would like to truly master Shyvana in order to counter Ekko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana most often picks up less CS compared to Ekko. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Shyvana versus Ekko build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Ekko than with most other common builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 47.3% when countering Ekko with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Ekko as Shyvana, Shyvana players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Shyvana vs Ekko battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
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