Shyvana vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Shyvana
based on 639 Shyvana vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Core Shyvana Items
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Shyvana vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Shyvana in LoL
The stats shown here show some significant Shyvana against Kassadin matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kassadin..
Shyvana typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Kassadin. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shyvana and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kassadin, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Shyvana makes an ok counter for Kassadin.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate compared to Kassadin, when facing one another, Shyvana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Shyvana into Kassadin.
Furthermore, Shyvana has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin 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 Kassadin. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana to counter Kassadin during both the laning 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana usually racks up less CS relative to Kassadin. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Shyvana versus Kassadin build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Kassadin than with most other common builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 49.1% battling Kassadin with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Kassadin 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 sets that we analyzed for Shyvana vs Kassadin fights, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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