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 stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some influential Shyvana vs. Rell matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rell’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rell. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Shyvana often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Rell. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when trying to fight Rell, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Shyvana makes a bad counter to Rell.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate compared to Rell, when on opposite teams, Shyvana also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Rell.
Furthermore, Shyvana has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rell. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Rell matchups, Rell is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a somewhat poor counter to Rell. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Shyvana against Rell.
If you would like to truly master Shyvana in order to counter Rell during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana typically gets more CS compared to Rell. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. 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, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Shyvana versus Rell build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Rell than with many other typical builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 48.8% battling Rell with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Rell 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. Of all the rune builds players picked for Shyvana vs Rell counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
If you want to see Shyvana vs Rell tips and counter builds for a a particular player tier, feel free to select one from the selection menu displayed above. At first, the statistics and guides shown are computed using all rounds with data with both champs.