Katarina vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Katarina
based on 1,773 Katarina vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Shyvana
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several valuable Katarina vs. Shyvana matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Shyvana. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Shyvana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Katarina or Shyvana?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when taking on Shyvana, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes an ok counter to Shyvana.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate than Shyvana, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Shyvanaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Shyvana matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter for Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Shyvana during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically accumulates more CS relative to Shyvana. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Katarina versus Shyvana build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Shyvana than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 50.5% battling Shyvana with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Shyvana as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina vs Shyvana battles, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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