Alistar vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Alistar
based on 767 Alistar vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Shyvana
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.
Advice to Win Against Shyvana
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Alistar vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some vital Alistar versus Shyvana counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Shyvana. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Alistar or Shyvana?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when facing off against Shyvana, with a 52.7% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a good counter for Shyvana.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate compared to Shyvana, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Alistar into Shyvanaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Shyvana matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Alistar is an above average counter to Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Shyvana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often racks up less CS relative to Shyvana. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Shyvana build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Shyvana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 52.7% battling Shyvana with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Shyvana as Alistar, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Alistar vs Shyvana counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% winrate overall.
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