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.
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several critical Shyvana vs. Veigar matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Veigar..
Shyvana normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Veigar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Veigar, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Shyvana makes an ok counter for Veigar.
While Shyvana does have a higher win rate than Veigar, when they face off with one another, Shyvana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Veigar.
Additionally, Shyvana has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Veigar matchups, Shyvana 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 decent counter to Veigar. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Veigar.
To truly master Shyvana in order to counter Veigar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana often picks up less CS relative to Veigar. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Shyvana versus Veigar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Veigar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Veigar with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Veigar as Shyvana, Shyvana players should use 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 rune sets players used for Shyvana vs Veigar clashes, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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