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[PRE-SEASON 10] Shyvana jungle total guide - The Most in Dep

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we need you , wake up and update your guide pls

where are you

do you think which one better at late game, trinity force or wit's end ?

Sup Spike. There's a mistake in Gank and Tank build's notes, saying that we should take Visage instead of BotRK, but there's apparently no BotRK in this build.

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Hi, Spike! It is me again. I was wondering: What do you think about the new on ? I seriously thought about it and used it as a third item, after and jg item and found it really good, specially for counter-jungling. What are your thoughts about it?? :D

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Informative guide, thanks. It covers just about anything a new Shvana player needs to know

how come you start w? I went in practice tool and found that e does more damage. Is this outdated? because Im pretty sure I read that you went w because celerity gave you more damage, so im guessing that this was before celerity was nerfed. Also do you have an op.gg I can follow?

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Hello, Spyke. I am ~~your stalker~~ a fan of your work and I've been playing a lot with . Acording to you we could take drake already at level 4, though it was risky because we would be really low and could die should the enemy come. However, I tried jg after those changes in the jungle at patch 9.23 and I was astonished at how fast was growing. Before I would need to take red-blue-gromp and 2 mini wolves to get lvl 3, now I don't even need the wolves and, to make thing more interesting, just farming I managed to be 2 levels ahead of an enemy . To make it even better, taking the first drake, an that was supposed to be the hardest to take, was astonishingly easy and fast at lvl 5. I wonder if it would be that easy lvl 4, but given at how fast evolved just by farming (and taking the enemy chickens), is way easy to take 5 before going drake.

Now with those changes in the jungle, don't you think that was somewhat an indirectly great buff for a champion that take Dragons with ease such as Shyvana?

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Hello :) Yes, I think the pre-Season 10 changes mean that Shyvana is 'back'! The main thing is the changes to jungle XP and camp spawning timers, so that being a good jungle farmer is now actually rewarded. Taking enemy chickens is a good strategy, someone like Rengar is always going to leave those at levels 1-2 because he takes them so slow.

Either level 4 or level 5 for first drake seems good to me, Shyvana can do it at either level if she went back already (for example, + + should do it fast and safe). The exact timing of going there in a game is obviously going to depend on your vision, your knowledge of where the enemy jungler is, and whether your bot lane has lane priority. So I should say in the guide that Shyvana is "looking" to take first drake any time from level 4 onwards.

I have aimed to update the guide for Pre-Season 10 fully when the pre-season started on 20 November but there's probably parts that are still out-of-date, if you spot anything specific please do let me know. I also plan to update some of the videos shown, but need to find good current examples of Shyvana play - if anyone wants to suggest a good Shyvana video in comments, please do!

I also think that you are right. They lowered hp of the dragons and the game is more based on dragons. This is indirectly a shyvana buff. The only con is cloud drake is useless.

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yeah, only good for her passive, though the dragon soul do help on move speed and increase her DPS after ult for a while.

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Not gonna lie, this is the longest guide I ever read. However, this has basically everything a shyvanna player could ask for. I think we will see more of her in season 10 due to the massive dragon changes. AP nuke shyvanna is going to be nuts when those changes hit the live servers.

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not gonna lie but people prefer to play shyvana as an AP jungler now instead of AD but i've seen her hybrid

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Yes AP Shyvana is a lot of fun.

did shyvana strong at late game ? , and what should i do with her ?

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Late game Shyvana wants to tank up, you can even sell items and switch to a full tank build.

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Ok so with the scuttle crab rework I cannot seem to have a healthy farm. I used to use scuttle to heal back up but since it spawns later im not sure what to do. Any suggestions?

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Shyvana shouldn't need to heal up if you keep in motion around the jungle camps - kite them slightly, let the Krugs block each other a bit, and you should take less damage.

You can also back early - as soon as you have 350 gold - get a Hunter's Talisman and then you can stay healthy in the jungle for a long time.

Hi Spike,
your guide is great but do you think you can make an in-depth guide exclusively for AP shyvana? I've always wanted to play it but I'm not exactly sure what runes and builds would be beneficial apart from the ones you have already mentioned. Also, is support Shyvana (probably AP utility build imo) viable nowadays?

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Hi :)

There is an AP Shyvana section in this guide, it should give you enough to get started. I will look at making a new cheat-sheet at the top with runes and some builds for this.

The first 5 minutes are going to be the same in any game, you need to farm the same way and buy a jungle item and boots - is good for the 10% CDR and so that your basic attacks, Q and W are not completely useless.

The main differences for AP Shyvana are:

you want to max CDR at 40% or 45%, Cosmic Insight rune is good
max the E ability first
core item Nashor's Tooth is essential, attack speed is needed to lower the cooldown on your ult
beyond that, you can pick from the full range of tank-mage items - I mean items giving AP + health, or AP + armor or AP + MR, any AP item which does not have mana

"Support Shyvana" in my view is not at all viable, ever. If you want a tanky support there are so many choices - I like - or if you want a support with a ranged AoE damage look at , or even or full AP . Shyvana is manaless so can spam E in lane, but these days any support champion with and can spam abilities.

I believe that any champion can support, I've played "Support Kha'Zix" a couple of times for fun. But the reasons Shyvana is a bad support are:

she scales well with items but she needs high gold income to get her items, and as a support you won't have the gold
she scales well with levels but in bot lane you will usually be under-levelled
her main fears are ADCs and hard CC and she finds both together in the bot lane, they can easily kite her to death
from level 6 her natural rhythm of play is: R is up - gank a lane or look for a team fight, R is down - farm; as a support she won't be able to control her rhythm of play so much.

I really do not recommend support Shyvana. Fine if it's your smurf account and you can basically play anything in any lane, but otherwise don't do it.

You could look at Shyvana ADC, with a support like Nami or Soraka, and building full damage with a BotRK + Stormrazor based build. Bruisers in the bot lane ADC role seem to work quite well in Patch 8.13.

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