Who counters Shyvana in Wild Rift?

Shyvana's strongest Jungle counters in Wild Rift are Lillia, Nunu & Willump, and Rammus. For example, Lillia: Her magic damage ignores your armor, and her ramping speed kites your dashless frame around every fight. Lillia also out-clears you, and her sleep flips any pit contest.

Who is Shyvana good against in Wild Rift?

Shyvana is a favorable matchup into Wukong, Nocturne, and Kha'Zix in the Jungle role. For example, Wukong: Wukong's dash-in burst does not kill a scaled Shyvana, and once you transform your cleave and Burnout (2nd) out-damage him in the extended brawl, so his clone buys an escape rather than a kill.

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Shyvana Jungle Wild Rift Guide

Shyvana jungle counters include Lillia, Nunu & Willump, and Rammus. See the best build, runes, matchups, and game plan for Wild Rift Patch 7.3.

How to play

Keep farming to strengthen your dragon form Clear camps consistently and take safe objectives instead of chasing every early fight.
Fight when your dragon form is ready Basic attacks help fill your Fury bar, which your ultimate needs to turn you into a dragon. Wait until it is ready before starting an important fight.
Hit your fireball before attacking Hit your 3rd ability to mark the enemy, then attack them for extra damage. Use your ultimate to jump in when your team can follow.

Strengths

One of the fastest, most sustainable clears in the role, letting her farm a level and an objective ahead.
A real objective bully who solos dragons early and turns her passive stacks into permanent power.
Scales into a tanky, self-healing teamfighter whose dragon form lets her outlast most late-game brawls.

Weaknesses

No hard crowd control until her ultimate, so early ganks only work when the lane sets up the kill.
A heads-down farmer with no dash before dragon form, making her an easy target for invades and counter-ganks.
Her power is back-loaded, so a jungler who steals her farm and dragons can keep her from ever spiking.

Build Snapshot

Long Sword Immortal Treads Trinity Force Blade of the Ruined King Death's Dance Force of Nature Amaranth's Twinguard Randuin's Omen

Rune Setup

Fleet Footwork Unshakeable Second Wind Overgrowth Legend: Alacrity Conqueror

Summoner Spells

Flash Dragon's Descent (Ult) is a committed targeted-location dash, not map-wide travel. Flash gives Shyvana a second reposition after landing or an escape while she is in Human Form. Smite You are playing Jungle, you always take Smite. Monster damage upgrades from 600 to 1000 after 8 consumed Eco-system Protection stacks and to 1400 after 20 total. Ghost Take this over Flash when you keep getting kited after your dragon form charge. Her damage is all sustained attacks, so staying in contact is what she needs.

Shyvana Jungle Counters

Who counters Shyvana Jungle in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Shyvana in the jungle matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.

Lillia: Her magic damage ignores your armor, and her ramping speed kites your dashless frame around every fight. Lillia also out-clears you, and her sleep flips any pit contest.
Nunu & Willump: Nunu contests the objective race you rely on: his Consume (1st) clear keeps pace with yours, his percent-health bite chunks the health bar you scale with, and his ultimate threatens a steal at every dragon.
Rammus: Rammus reflects the hybrid autos your damage leans on: Defensive Ball Curl (2nd) sends Twin Bite (1st) and your on-hit damage straight back, and his armor cuts your physical damage to almost nothing.

Champions Shyvana Is Strong Against

Shyvana's best matchups in Wild Rift. Shyvana holds an edge against these picks in the jungle role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.

Wukong: Wukong's dash-in burst does not kill a scaled Shyvana, and once you transform your cleave and Burnout (2nd) out-damage him in the extended brawl, so his clone buys an escape rather than a kill.
Nocturne: Nocturne bets everything on one dive, and the longer the game goes the less his single combo means against your bulk, since you heal through the burst he commits.
Kha'Zix: Kha'Zix needs an isolated squishy target to delete, and a dragon-form Shyvana is neither. He can bully your early farm, but once you scale his burst bounces off your bulk.

Early Game

Your first clear is the point of the champion, so treat it like a race. Use Flame Breath (3rd) to mark the camp, keep Burnout (2nd) ticking while attacking, and reset an attack with Twin Bite (1st); both Twin Bite (1st) strikes apply on-hit effects, and subsequent attacks reduce its cooldown. The clear earns Draconic Bloodline from large monsters, but Fury is not available until Dragon's Descent (Ult) is learned, at which point the ability grants its first 100 Fury automatically. Path toward scuttle when your lanes can support the contest, then prioritize reaching level five for Dragon's Descent (Ult). Before that, only gank lanes that can hold the target for you because Human Form has no hard crowd control or dash. Ward your flanks, watch where the enemy jungler started, and keep collecting large-monster stacks without forcing an unsupported river duel.

Mid Game

Dragon is valuable because it grants a large Draconic Bloodline increase, but Herald, Baron, other large monsters, and takedowns also progress the passive. Choose the objective your lanes can reach first instead of forcing every dragon from a losing setup. If the enemy commits several champions to one side, trade for Herald, camps, or turret pressure and keep building stacks elsewhere. Your clear speed lets you farm one side of the map and still reach the objective on the other side first, so use it to set up vision and arrive before the enemy jungler. You also stop fearing invades once your ultimate is up, so counter-jungle the slow farmers and steal camps from anyone who tried to starve you.

Late Game

Group before Baron and Elder, build Fury in advance, and avoid showing on a distant side wave when the enemy can start the objective. Use Dragon's Descent (Ult) after the enemy commits or when the landing can displace a priority target toward your team. Damage the closest safe target after entering and use Burnout (2nd) to stay in range. Against scaled carries, do not remain alone in the pit after allies disengage; leave with the team and rebuild Fury for the next contest.

Teamfights

Do not waste Dragon's Descent (Ult) as an opener unless the leap lands on a clump or a key target and drags them with her. That leap is your engage, your gap-closer, and your only hard crowd control, so spend it where it locks down a carry or splits their backline instead of just adding a body to the fight. Once you are in, Burnout (2nd) and your cleave punish anyone stacked near you, and Flame Breath (3rd) marks the target your team should focus. You are tanky and you heal as you fight, so the longer you stay alive in the middle, the more the fight tilts your way. Pick the right target, commit the leap when your team can follow the landing, and let the brawl play out around you.

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