Gnar vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Gnar
based on 569 Gnar vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Shyvana
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some significant Gnar vs. Shyvana matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the two. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shyvana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Shyvana..
Gnar typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Shyvana. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Gnar or Shyvana?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually wins when taking on Shyvana, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a good counter to Shyvana.
While Gnar does have a higher win rate compared to Shyvana, when facing one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Shyvanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shyvana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Shyvana matchups, Gnar is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Gnar is a decent counter for Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average picks up more CS relative to Shyvana. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Gnar versus Shyvana build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Shyvana than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 51.7% battling Shyvana with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Shyvana as Gnar, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Gnar vs Shyvana counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
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