Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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 Heimerdinger Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shyvana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shyvana helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger is paired with Shyvana, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Shyvana does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Shyvana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shyvana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shyvana.
Additionally, when Heimerdinger plays with Shyvana on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Shyvana does a decent job of protecting Heimerdinger during teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Heimerdinger that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Shyvana is a very typical teammate for Heimerdinger. By being on the same team as Heimerdinger, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Heimerdinger and Shyvana that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Shyvana has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Shyvana comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, Heimerdinger players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Heimerdinger and Shyvana together, you will not be granting your team much crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Shyvana teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Heimerdinger to work well with Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Heimerdinger and Shyvana synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Shyvana than with many other typical builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 49.6% helping carry Shyvana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Heimerdinger players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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