Vel'Koz vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Vel'Koz
based on 1,071 Vel'Koz vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Shyvana
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several vital Vel'Koz versus Shyvana matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shyvana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Shyvana..
Vel'Koz usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Shyvana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Shyvana?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually wins when facing off against Shyvana, with a 53.8% win rate. Therefore, Vel'Koz makes a great counter for Shyvana.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate than Shyvana, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vel'Koz into Shyvanaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Shyvana matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a great counter to Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Shyvana. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Vel'Koz versus Shyvana build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Shyvana than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 53.8% when playing against Shyvana with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Shyvana as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Shyvana counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.8% win rate overall.
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