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.
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
The Shyvana Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Shyvana perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is an ally to Vel'Koz, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This may indicate that Vel'Koz does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played with Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Shyvana in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Shyvana that will always be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a pretty good companion for Shyvana. By playing on the same team as Shyvana, he improves their win rate by 1.5% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Shyvana and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means you need to be careful when lining up Vel'Koz teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Shyvana and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Shyvana and Vel'Koz synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana used at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other common builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take 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 we have analyed for Shyvana and Vel'Koz pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
If you would like to get Shyvana with Vel'Koz synergy tips and stats for a an individual division rank, please choose one from the selection menu provided above. At first, the stats and tips and suggestions shown are computed using all games completed with these champs.