Shyvana with Leona
How to Synergize Shyvana and Leona
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Shyvana Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Leona
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
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.
Shyvana Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Leona helps Shyvana perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana tries to synergize with Leona, she observes a small increase in her full damage output. This could indicate that Leona supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Leona.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Leona on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Leona does a decent job of protecting Shyvana in team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Leona
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Leona?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shyvana that will always be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Leona is a fantastic teammate for Shyvana. By locking into the same side as Shyvana, she increases their win rate by 4.2% to 53.3%. This demonstrates that there is a very real bond between Shyvana and Leona that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Shyvana. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Leona teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Shyvana players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Shyvana and Leona together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 Shyvana to pair well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Shyvana and Leona synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Leona than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average winrate of 53.3% helping carry Leona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Shyvana players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Shyvana and Leona pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.3% winrate overall.
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