Shyvana with Alistar
How to Synergize Shyvana and Alistar
based on 839 Shyvana with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Alistar
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 Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Shyvana Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shyvana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Shyvana perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana is paired with Alistar, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Alistar supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Alistar.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Alistar on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Shyvana in teamfights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Alistar
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top ally for Shyvana that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, Alistar is a very bad teammate for Shyvana. By being on the same side as Shyvana, he drops their win rate by -3.3% to 45.8%. This shows that there is a terrible synergy between Shyvana and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players should be cautious when finding Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Shyvana and Alistar together, you will not be providing your other allies much AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shyvana in order to pair well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Shyvana and Alistar synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 45.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, 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 we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.8% winrate overall.
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