Shyvana vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Shyvana
based on 473 Shyvana vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Shyvana vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Shyvana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Shyvana vs. Kalista matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Shyvana normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shyvana and Kalista
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when taking on Kalista, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Shyvana makes an ok counter to Kalista.
While Shyvana does have a lower winrate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Shyvana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Kalista.
Moreover, Shyvana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champion 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 somewhat poor counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shyvana against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shyvana in order to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana most often picks up less CS as Kalista. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Shyvana versus Kalista build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Kalista than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Kalista as Shyvana, you should take 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 runes players used for Shyvana vs Kalista battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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