Shyvana with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Shyvana and Caitlyn
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Shyvana Caitlyn Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Caitlyn
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 Understand How Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Shyvana Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shyvana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Caitlyn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Caitlyn helps Shyvana perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is paired with Caitlyn, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Caitlyn provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Caitlyn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Caitlyn on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Shyvana during teamfights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Caitlyn
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no ideal companion for Shyvana that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Caitlyn is a very typical teammate for Shyvana. By being on the same team as Shyvana, she lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Shyvana and Caitlyn that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players should be very careful when enlisting Caitlyn allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Shyvana players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Shyvana and Caitlyn together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much utility. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to pair well with Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Shyvana and Caitlyn synergy build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Shyvana combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Caitlyn than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Caitlyn with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Shyvana players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Shyvana and Caitlyn pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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