Shyvana with Kayn
How to Synergize Shyvana and Kayn
based on 473 Shyvana with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Kayn Counter Build
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Core Shyvana Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Shyvana Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kayn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kayn helps Shyvana perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana is paired with Kayn, she observes a great improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Kayn helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played alongside Kayn 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 synergisticly with Kayn.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Kayn on the same side, she typically receives less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Kayn does a decent job of covering Shyvana in team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Kayn
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no perfect ally for Shyvana that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Kayn is a very bad companion for Shyvana. By being on the same side as Shyvana, he drops their win rate by -5.5% to 43.6%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Shyvana and Kayn that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kayn has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means Shyvana players need to be very careful when arranging Kayn teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Shyvana and Kayn together, you may not be granting your team much AP. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shyvana to work well with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Shyvana and Kayn synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Kayn than with most other common builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 43.6% when playing alongside Kayn with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should take 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 runes players used for Shyvana and Kayn pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.6% winrate overall.
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