Nasus vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Nasus
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Nasus vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Shyvana
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several vital Nasus against Shyvana matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Shyvana..
Nasus normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Shyvana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Nasus or Shyvana?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Shyvana, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Nasus makes an ok counter for Shyvana.
While Nasus does have a higher win rate compared to Shyvana, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Shyvana.
Moreover, Nasus also has almost no amount 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Shyvana matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nasus is a decent counter for Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus to counter Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for 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.
Nasus on average gets more CS compared to Shyvana. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Shyvana build consist of Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Shyvana than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when playing against Shyvana with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Shyvana as Nasus, Nasus players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Nasus vs Shyvana face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Shyvana as Nasus are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.