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.
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
The Shyvana Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Shyvana perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana plays on the same team as Nidalee, she gets a sizeable uptick in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Nidalee supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Nidalee 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 Nidalee.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Nidalee on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Shyvana during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Shyvana that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Nidalee is a very typical ally for Shyvana. By being on the same team as Shyvana, she improves their win rate by 0.5% to 49.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Shyvana and Nidalee that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Nidalee comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Shyvana and Nidalee together, you will not be providing your side much crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Shyvana in order to pair well with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Shyvana and Nidalee synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Shyvana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Shyvana players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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