Shyvana with Varus
How to Synergize Shyvana and Varus
based on 2,002 Shyvana with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Varus Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Varus Counter Build
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Core Shyvana Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Varus
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Shyvana Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Varus helps Shyvana perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana tries to synergize with Varus, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Varus supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played with Varus 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 alongside Varus.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Varus on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Varus does a poor job of covering Shyvana in team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Varus
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Varus?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shyvana that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, Varus is a very typical teammate for Shyvana. By locking into the same side as Shyvana, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 48.5%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Shyvana and Varus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Varus has a lower difficulty than Shyvana. That means Shyvana players don't need to be cautious when arranging Varus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Shyvana and Varus together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Varus teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana to pair well with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Shyvana and Varus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Varus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Varus with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip 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 rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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