Xerath with Shyvana
How to Synergize Xerath and Shyvana
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Xerath Shyvana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Shyvana
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Advice to Understand How Shyvana Will Play
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.
Xerath Shyvana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shyvana as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shyvana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shyvana helps Xerath perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xerath is an ally to Shyvana, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Shyvana does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played with Shyvana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shyvana.
Additionally, when Xerath plays with Shyvana on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Shyvana does a poor job of covering Xerath in teamfights.
Synergies between Xerath and Shyvana
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Shyvana?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Shyvana is a below average companion for Xerath. By being on the same side as Xerath, she drops their win rate by -1.5% to 49.1%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Xerath and Shyvana that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Shyvana has a much lower diffuclty than Xerath. That means Xerath players don't need to be careful when enlisting Shyvana teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Xerath and Shyvana together, you will not be providing your side much utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Shyvana ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Xerath in order to synergize with Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Xerath and Shyvana synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Shyvana than with many other common builds. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 49.1% helping carry Shyvana with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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