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.
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
The stat comparisons provided here feature several significant Shyvana against Master Yi counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Master Yi..
Shyvana usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Master Yi. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when trying to fight Master Yi, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Shyvana makes a bad counter to Master Yi.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate than Master Yi, when facing one another, Shyvana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Shyvana into Master Yi.
Moreover, Shyvana has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Shyvana is a somewhat poor counter for Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shyvana against Master Yi.
If you would like to truly master Shyvana in order to counter Master Yi during both the early game 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana often accumulates more CS as Master Yi. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Shyvana versus Master Yi build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Shyvana included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Master Yi than with many other common builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Master Yi as Shyvana, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Shyvana vs Master Yi battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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