Shyvana vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Shyvana
based on 1,091 Shyvana vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Shyvana vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Shyvana in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some vital Shyvana vs. Gwen matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Gwen..
Shyvana typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Gwen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shyvana and Gwen
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Gwen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shyvana usually wins when playing against Gwen, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Shyvana makes a good counter to Gwen.
While Shyvana does have a higher winrate than Gwen, when facing one another, Shyvana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Gwen.
Additionally, Shyvana has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Gwen matchups, Shyvana is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Shyvana is a decent counter for Gwen. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Shyvana against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to counter Gwen during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana typically gets less CS as Gwen. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Shyvana versus Gwen build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Gwen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when countering Gwen with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Gwen as Shyvana, 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 builds players picked for Shyvana vs Gwen counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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