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 you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
The Shyvana Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xerath helps Shyvana perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is an ally to Xerath, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This could signal that Xerath doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Xerath on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Shyvana in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Shyvana that will no matter what be her top ally. However, Xerath is a very typical teammate for Shyvana. By being on the same side as Shyvana, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.1%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Shyvana and Xerath that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means Shyvana players must be careful when enlisting Xerath allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Shyvana and Xerath together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xerath teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Shyvana to work well with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Shyvana and Xerath synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Xerath than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xerath with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Shyvana players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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