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.
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
The stats shown here feature some significant Shyvana against Taric counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Shyvana often has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when taking on Taric, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Shyvana makes an ok counter to Taric.
While Shyvana does have a lower winrate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Shyvana also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Taric.
Additionally, Shyvana has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Shyvana is a somewhat poor counter for Taric. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Shyvana against Taric.
If you would like to truly master Shyvana in order to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana usually gets more CS relative to Taric. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Shyvana versus Taric build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Taric than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 49.2% battling Taric with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Taric as Shyvana, you 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 runes players picked for Shyvana vs Taric face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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