Shyvana vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Shyvana
based on 1,405 Shyvana vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Shyvana vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Shyvana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several vital Shyvana vs. Irelia matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
Shyvana normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Irelia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shyvana and Irelia
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when taking on Irelia, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Shyvana makes an ok counter to Irelia.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate compared to Irelia, when on opposite teams, Shyvana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shyvana into Irelia.
Moreover, Shyvana has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Shyvana is a somewhat poor counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Shyvana against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to counter Irelia during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Irelia. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Shyvana versus Irelia build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Irelia than with many other common builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Irelia with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Irelia as Shyvana, Shyvana players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Shyvana vs Irelia face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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