Karthus vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Karthus
based on 823 Karthus vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karthus vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Karthus vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Karthus
Tips for Playing as Karthus against Shyvana
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
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.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
Karthus vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Karthus in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several valuable Karthus versus Shyvana counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Karthus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Karthus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Shyvana. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in deaths.
Karthus usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Shyvana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Karthus and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Karthus or Shyvana?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karthus usually loses when trying to fight Shyvana, with a 42.6% win rate. Therefore, Karthus makes a poor counter for Shyvana.
While Karthus does have a much lower win rate than Shyvana, when on opposite teams, Karthus also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Karthus into Shyvanaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Karthus also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Karthus 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Karthus is a garbage counter to Shyvana. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Karthus against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Karthus in order to counter Shyvana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karthus often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Shyvana. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Karthus versus Shyvana build include Liandry's Anguish, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Karthus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Shyvana than with most other common item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 42.6% when playing against Shyvana with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Shyvana as Karthus, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Karthus vs Shyvana battles, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 42.6% winrate overall.
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