Shyvana vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Shyvana
based on 1,936 Shyvana vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Garen
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
Advice to Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Shyvana vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Shyvana in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some valuable Shyvana versus Garen matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Shyvana typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shyvana and Garen
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Garen, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Shyvana makes an ok counter to Garen.
While Shyvana does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Shyvana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Garen.
Moreover, Shyvana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Shyvana is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shyvana against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to counter Garen during both the laning 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 stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana most often racks up less CS as Garen. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Shyvana versus Garen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Garen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Garen as Shyvana, Shyvana players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Shyvana vs Garen counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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