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.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Shyvana Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Shyvana perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is paired with Aphelios, she sees a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This may signal that Aphelios doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played with Aphelios on the same team, 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 alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Aphelios on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Shyvana during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Shyvana that will always be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Aphelios is a below average teammate for Shyvana. By locking into the same team as Shyvana, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 47.7%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Shyvana and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means Shyvana players should be very careful when lining up Aphelios allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Shyvana and Aphelios together, you may not be granting your team much magic damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana to synergize with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Shyvana and Aphelios synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 47.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Shyvana players should equip 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 combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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