Shyvana vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Shyvana
based on 2,210 Shyvana vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Shyvana vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Shyvana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some strategic Shyvana against Graves matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s ratio of NaN, showing that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Shyvana typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shyvana and Graves
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when trying to fight Graves, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Shyvana makes a bad counter to Graves.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate than Graves, when facing one another, Shyvana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Shyvana into Graves.
Moreover, Shyvana has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a trash counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to counter Graves during both the lane 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 suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Graves. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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 need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Shyvana versus Graves build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Graves than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 48.0% battling Graves with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Graves as Shyvana, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Shyvana vs Graves clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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