Shyvana vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Shyvana
based on 1,293 Shyvana vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Bard Counter Build
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Core Shyvana Items
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Guide to Countering Bard as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Bard
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 Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Shyvana vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Shyvana in LoL
The stats provided here show several valuable Shyvana against Bard counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Bard..
Shyvana usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Bard. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shyvana and Bard
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Shyvana makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Shyvana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Shyvana into Bard.
Moreover, Shyvana also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Shyvana is a terribly counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shyvana against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shyvana in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana most often racks up more CS as Bard. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Shyvana versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 48.0% battling Bard with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Bard as Shyvana, Shyvana players 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 that we analyzed for Shyvana vs Bard fights, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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