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.
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Shyvana against Vi matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Vi..
Shyvana typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Vi. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when trying to fight Vi, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Shyvana makes a poor counter to Vi.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate than Vi, when on opposite teams, Shyvana also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Shyvana into Vi.
Moreover, Shyvana also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Shyvana is a trash counter for Vi. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Vi.
To truly master Shyvana to counter Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana typically racks up more CS as Vi. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Shyvana versus Vi build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Shyvana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Vi than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 47.4% when countering Vi with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Vi 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for Shyvana vs Vi counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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