Leona with Shyvana
How to Synergize Leona and Shyvana
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Leona Shyvana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Leona with Shyvana
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Understand How Shyvana Will Play
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.
Leona Shyvana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shyvana as Leona in LoL
The Leona Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shyvana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shyvana helps Leona perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona tries to synergize with Shyvana, she gets a small decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Shyvana doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Shyvana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Shyvana.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Shyvana on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Shyvana does a decent job of covering Leona during teamfights.
Synergies between Leona and Shyvana
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Is Leona better when played alongside Shyvana?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Leona that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Shyvana is a good ally for Leona. By locking into the same side as Leona, she increases their win rate by 1.1% to 53.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a good synergy between Leona and Shyvana that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Shyvana has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Shyvana comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Leona players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Leona and Shyvana together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Shyvana ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona in order to synergize with Shyvana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Leona and Shyvana synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Shyvana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 53.3% helping carry Shyvana with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.3% winrate overall.
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