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Shyvana champion portrait

Shyvana Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 2,117 gamesUpdated

46.4%win rate0.1%pick5.3%ban

Who counters Shyvana

How to build Shyvana

Plated Steelcaps→Experimental Hexplate→Spear of Shojin→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Experimental Hexplate → Spear of Shojin → Death's Dance

52.7% win rate 11% of games 131 games
RunesPrecisionPress the AttackTriumphLegend: HasteLast StandResolveConditioningUnflinching18% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite52%
Skills
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Emberstrike
214151718
Inferno Aegis
14578
Molten Burst
39101213
Dragon's Descent
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Shyvana build →
46.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 46.3% over 4,206 gamesPatch 26.21: 46.4% over 2,117 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
44.5%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
5.3%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
39.4%under 22 min
49.7%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Shyvana champion portraitT ShyvanavsShen champion portraitT Shen
2 / 5 / 0

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Hextech Rocketbelt

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

WEQEEREWEWRWW
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Shyvana champion portraitT ShyvanavsMaster Yi champion portraitT Master Yi
7 / 3 / 2

Build

Mercury's Treads|Hextech Gunblade→Spear of Shojin→Experimental Hexplate

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WQEWWRWQWQRQQEERE
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Shyvana champion portraitT ShyvanavsSett champion portraitT Sett
3 / 5 / 0

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Hextech Gunblade→Experimental Hexplate

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WQEEEREWEWRQQQQRWW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 38.6% win rate · 18% of games · 210 games
PrecisionPress the AttackTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
ResolveConditioningUnflinching
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 46.2% win rate · 10% of games · 119 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite52%46.2%1,146 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport32%45.2%690 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps55%Mercury's Treads26%Gluttonous Greaves8%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 46.0% win rate

Shyvana build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Experimental Hexplate1st
  2. Spear of Shojin2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
6% of games that reach a third item take this path57.1% win rate63 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Shyvana →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 2,144 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
53% · 46.4% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
25% · 49.1% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
8% · 47.5% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 37.0% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
2% · 51.0% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
2% · 44.7% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Experimental Hexplate›Spear of Shojin+Plated Steelcaps4% of games · 53.6% win rate · 84 games
  2. Experimental Hexplate+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 20.4% win rate · 54 games
  3. Experimental Hexplate›Spear of Shojin+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 41.5% win rate · 53 games
  4. Trinity Force+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 28.6% win rate · 42 games
  5. Experimental Hexplate›Spear of Shojin›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 57.1% win rate · 35 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Shyvana against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Shyvana's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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