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.
Jinx's ultimate does less damage the closer you are to her.
Jinx's minigun takes time to ramp up. If you see her poking with rockets try to jump on her and burst her down.
Jinx's snare grenades have a long cooldown and are her primary means of protecting herself. If she misses with them she will have a hard time escaping if engaged upon.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several critical Shyvana versus Jinx matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the pair. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jinx’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jinx..
Shyvana usually has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Jinx. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually wins when playing against Jinx, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Shyvana makes a good counter for Jinx.
While Shyvana does have a higher win rate compared to Jinx, when on opposite teams, Shyvana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Jinx.
Moreover, Shyvana also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jinx. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Jinx matchups, Shyvana is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a decent counter for Jinx. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Jinx.
To truly master Shyvana to counter Jinx during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana typically gets less CS relative to Jinx. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Shyvana versus Jinx build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Jinx than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when countering Jinx with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Jinx as Shyvana, Shyvana players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Shyvana vs Jinx counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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