Shyvana vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Shyvana
based on 1,071 Shyvana vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Shyvana vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Shyvana in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Shyvana against Vel'Koz counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Shyvana often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Vel'Koz. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shyvana and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 46.2% win rate. As a result, Shyvana makes a bad counter to Vel'Koz.
While Shyvana does have a lower winrate than Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Shyvana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Shyvana into Vel'Koz.
Moreover, Shyvana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Shyvana is a trash counter for Vel'Koz. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Vel'Koz. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, 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 situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Shyvana versus Vel'Koz build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Vel'Koz than with many other common builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 46.2% when countering Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Vel'Koz as Shyvana, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Shyvana vs Vel'Koz LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.2% win rate overall.
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