Olaf with Shyvana
How to Synergize Olaf and Shyvana
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Olaf Shyvana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Shyvana
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Shyvana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shyvana as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Shyvana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shyvana, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Olaf sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shyvana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shyvana helps Olaf perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf is an ally to Shyvana, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Shyvana does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played alongside Shyvana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Shyvana. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shyvana.
Additionally, when Olaf plays with Shyvana on the same team, he usually takes less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Shyvana does a decent job of covering Olaf in team fights.
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Shyvana?
There is no one best ally for Olaf that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Shyvana is a very typical ally for Olaf. By being on the same side as Olaf, she improves their win rate by 0.9% to 49.9%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Olaf and Shyvana that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Shyvana has a greater difficulty than Olaf. That means you should be careful when enlisting Shyvana comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Olaf and Shyvana together, you probably will not be giving your team much crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Shyvana ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Olaf to synergize with Shyvana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Olaf and Shyvana synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Shyvana than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Olaf had an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shyvana with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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