Irelia vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Irelia
based on 1,405 Irelia vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Shyvana
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Advice to Win Against Shyvana
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Irelia vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several critical Irelia versus Shyvana counter statistics that can help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shyvana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana..
Irelia normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Shyvana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Irelia or Shyvana?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when taking on Shyvana, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes an ok counter to Shyvana.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate compared to Shyvana, when facing one another, Irelia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Shyvana.
Furthermore, Irelia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Shyvana matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Irelia is a decent counter to Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to counter Shyvana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia on average racks up much more CS relative to Shyvana. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Shyvana build consist of Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Shyvana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 50.5% battling Shyvana with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Shyvana as Irelia, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Irelia vs Shyvana face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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