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.
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
The Shyvana Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Heimerdinger. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Heimerdinger helps Shyvana perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana tries to synergize with Heimerdinger, she sees a little decrease in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Heimerdinger does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played alongside Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a decent job of protecting Shyvana during team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Shyvana that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, Heimerdinger is a very typical companion for Shyvana. By locking into the same side as Shyvana, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 49.6%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Shyvana and Heimerdinger that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means you should be careful when finding Heimerdinger allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by pairing Shyvana and Heimerdinger together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Heimerdinger ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Shyvana to pair well with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Shyvana and Heimerdinger synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Heimerdinger than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Shyvana players should take 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 that we analyzed for Shyvana and Heimerdinger pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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