Shyvana Build Guide : Shyvana Mid: Draconic Supremacy :: League of Legends Strategy Builds

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tried this build out in the jungle, i hate laning, and its dumb since you can proc sundered sky and titanic hydra twice with Q XD

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I hope Riot only visually updates Shyvana. The dragon form looks atrocious lmao, but I just fell in love with her kit!

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With Riot changing Cosmic Drive next patch - removing the hp and giving more ap, would you start incorporating it into your build?

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Probably replaces Horizon. Will be trying it.

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Great freaking guide.

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You can update the guide now

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gunblade no longer exists :(

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Hi! I'm picking up Shyvana again ever since she was my first champion in season 4. I feel super nostalgic to play her again like I used to a lot back in the time and I've tried playing her top with sucess. (AD build though) I also LOVE going off-meta. My favorite pick is Kindred mid/adc(top even) with over 800k mastery points. But since I wanna go back to my roots with Shyvana and try and make her Mastery 7, I'm looking all over to find a good build for her.:)

I really enjoy your guide, though I have yet to try it. (Sometimes I prefer to listen to people who make such guides, OVER the proplay in probuilds for example, because people like you crunched more of the numbers most of the time~)
Either way, I'm eager to try hextech gunblade (since it seems to be your most to-go build?), but I've got some questions:
How do you actually sustain early on towards level 6. Because I've played Kog'maw mid to death for years as well, and the only sustain I have is his E for waveclear thankfully, until level 6 (Similar to Shyvana, he also gets poked down until 6). But since Shyvana doesn't have such waveclear as Kog'maw's E...I just wonder how you do it without a bit of help from Luden's Echo first...

Also because I'd like to go for the onhit/attack build to sustain Dragon form. (Gunblade, nashors's tooth, etc) but at the same time It feels like it will lack a lot of CDR so you're going to feel that... Because most of the items I build on Shyvana almost always have CDR in it. So here's a bit of my dilemma (and I could be wrong; by all means, I did not crunch the numbers!):
Would it be more viable to go gunblade first most of the time (basically your split-push build) OR your Luden's echo path (heavy E damage).

Then again, I have to play it a few times myself to figure out which fits the most for me personally, but I'm just a little scared early game that I will not have enough waveclear/cdr. And later not enough onhit/attack power if I get Luden's instead.
(A lot to read, sorry! I'm just really excited for this. I want her to replace my spammed Kog'maw mid because I really miss playing Shyvana)

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So I played against a Shyvana mid in ranked the other day and while we won, she did VERY well. So I was morbidly curious and looked up guides and tried her yesterday using yours. WOW, I am addicted! This is the most fun I've had in the mid lane in a long time!! Thanks for this!

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Rawr!

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Hey man great work! I have an different idea on the Keystone selection. Can you check it out and give me some feedback? https://loldata.info/champion-guide/ap-shyvana/ Thanks!

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@ Veralion , Is the R->Flash combo possible? Does it help landing the ult by almost supressing the enemy's reaction time (like lee sin's or annie's R->flash combos) ? I'm asking because when I tried it in the practice tool, it seemed bugged.

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You gain no extra distance and... maybe you get to the endpoint a little faster? If so, it's negligible and still allows for time to react. Might catch people off guard? Big commitment for not much benefit IMO. I'd rather flash and then ult in all cases.

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Hi! I'm adoring this guide and absolutely destroying using your guide, Shyvana mid is criminally underrated. However, I'm not really enjoying the stalker's blade/smite deal. Do you have any recommendations for replacing those? Thank you so much! <3

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I'd like to ask: why pick Adaptive Damage runes instead of Attack Speed and Armor? Maybe even a CDR rune and extra Magic Resistance?

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Well, there are very few champions into whom you'd be able to make use of the attack speed rune early. Shyvana is a very poor duelist until at least level 3, and at that point you either won't be allowed to close distance or get completely demolished and out-traded. There may be a few champions into which AS is the better option; Ekko comes to mind as a possibility. You trade pretty evenly into him. But it strikes me as a niche thing for sure. I'd be interested to hear anecdotes with running it!

The AP is mainly used to aid early last hitting with E since you'll be zoned off the wave most of the time; the base damage is only 60+20 at rank 1, so the timings would be rough without the extra 18(0.7)= 12.6 damage. Even if your timings are great, the lower damage would still hurt your last hitting since E is on a very long cooldown for a few levels. You need to be able to kill as much as you can per cast. Scaling CDR takes quite a while to get to a value worth caring about, and my build always caps it one way or another by that point. If it were a flat 5%, now that would be worth taking, but as is... meh.

You take defensive shards as needed for the lane; just 1 armor rune is always enough since you'll be building Seeker's. I always take double MR if I need to take Fleet for a bad lane. I take double MR with DH against all-in burst mages like Annie, Syndra, Katarina since there's no AP/MR option in the game.

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Well, there are very few champions into whom you'd be able to make use of the attack speed rune early. Shyvana is a very poor duelist until at least level 3, and at that point you either won't be allowed to close distance or get completely demolished and out-traded. There may be a few champions into which AS is the better option; Ekko comes to mind as a possibility. You trade pretty evenly into him. But it strikes me as a niche thing for sure. I'd be interested to hear anecdotes with running it!

The AP is mainly used to aid early last hitting with E since you'll be zoned off the wave most of the time; the base damage is only 60+20 at rank 1, so the timings would be rough without the extra 18(0.7)= 12.6 damage. Even if your timings are great, the lower damage would still hurt your last hitting since E is on a very long cooldown for a few levels. You need to be able to kill as much as you can per cast. Scaling CDR takes quite a while to get to a value worth caring about, and my build always caps it one way or another by that point. If it were a flat 5%, now that would be worth taking, but as is... meh.

You take defensive shards as needed for the lane; just 1 armor rune is always enough since you'll be building Seeker's. I always take double MR if I need to take Fleet for a bad lane. I take double MR with DH against all-in burst mages like Annie, Syndra, Katarina since there's no AP/MR option in the game.

can definitely make use of an Attack Speed rune. It allows her to proc faster.

Try picking her for top lane some day. She can effectively trade with other melee top laners. :)

Shyvana Mid: Draconic Supremacy

Shyvana Mid: Draconic Supremacy

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