Nidalee vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Nidalee
based on 386 Nidalee vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Shyvana
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some significant Nidalee against Shyvana counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Shyvana..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Shyvana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Shyvana?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Shyvana, with a 45.9% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Shyvana.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Shyvana, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Shyvanaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee 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 teamfights.
Nidalee is a bad counter to Shyvana. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often picks up less CS relative to Shyvana. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Nidalee versus Shyvana build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Shyvana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 45.9% when countering Shyvana with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Shyvana as Nidalee, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Shyvana counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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