Shyvana vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Shyvana
based on 586 Shyvana vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Shyvana vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Shyvana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Shyvana vs. Zilean matchup stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Shyvana normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Zilean. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shyvana and Zilean
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Zilean?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shyvana usually wins when trying to fight Zilean, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Shyvana makes a good counter to Zilean.
While Shyvana does have a higher win rate compared to Zilean, when they face off with one another, Shyvana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Shyvana into Zilean.
Furthermore, Shyvana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Zilean matchups, Shyvana is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Shyvana is a decent counter to Zilean. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Shyvana against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to counter Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Zilean. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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 situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Shyvana versus Zilean build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Zilean than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 51.5% battling Zilean with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Zilean 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 combinations players picked for Shyvana vs Zilean LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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