Shyvana with Olaf
How to Synergize Shyvana and Olaf
based on 387 Shyvana with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Olaf Counter Build
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Core Shyvana Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
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.
Shyvana Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Olaf helps Shyvana perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is paired with Olaf, she gets a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Olaf does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played with Olaf 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 with Olaf.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Olaf on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Shyvana during team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Olaf
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no one best synergy for Shyvana that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Olaf is a very typical ally for Shyvana. By playing on the same team as Shyvana, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Shyvana and Olaf that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Shyvana. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Olaf allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Shyvana and Olaf together, you probably will not be giving your side enough utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 to pair well with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Shyvana and Olaf synergy build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Olaf than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Olaf with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Shyvana players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
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