Hecarim vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Hecarim
based on 5,580 Hecarim vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Shyvana
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Hecarim in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some important Hecarim versus Shyvana matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana..
Hecarim usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Shyvana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hecarim and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Shyvana?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when playing against Shyvana, with a 46.4% win rate. As a result, Hecarim makes a poor counter to Shyvana.
While Hecarim does have a lower winrate than Shyvana, when on opposite teams, Hecarim also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hecarim into Shyvana.
Additionally, Hecarim also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shyvana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Shyvana matchups, Shyvana is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Hecarim is a terribly counter to Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim to counter Shyvana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim usually gets less CS compared to Shyvana. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Hecarim versus Shyvana build include Duskblade of Draktharr, Spear Of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Shyvana than with most other common builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 46.4% when countering Shyvana with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Shyvana as Hecarim, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Hecarim vs Shyvana face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.4% winrate overall.
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