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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several important Shyvana against Senna counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Senna’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Senna..
Shyvana normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than Senna. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when facing off against Senna, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Shyvana makes a poor counter to Senna.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate than Senna, when facing one another, Shyvana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Senna.
Moreover, Shyvana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Senna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Senna matchups, Senna is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a somewhat poor counter to Senna. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Senna.
To truly master Shyvana in order to counter Senna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Senna. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Shyvana versus Senna build include Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Shyvana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Senna than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 48.5% battling Senna with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Senna as Shyvana, Shyvana players should use 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 chose for Shyvana vs Senna fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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