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 started playing shyvana for the most random reason: I saw it being played by pros on a competition and marvelled at how fast she cleared camps including dragons, second time I tried her in the jungle I did a penta. I kept researching about shyvana ap and found your guide. I dedicate this other penta to you:

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Pros, really? I haven't heard of her even being touched since the season 4 TP/Smite top meta. Dyrus killed it on her for a while. Must be a minor region, right?

Took me a lot longer to finally penta, it's tough when all your damage is on a 5s CD, good job and thanks!

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Yes, I think I was watching an old tournament, it wasn't live, but on youtube. I hope shyvana sees play again some day again in competitions, possibly when it's buffed on some patch. Also, since with shyvana ap mid your aim is to gain a lead by roaming bot and doing dragons, why not just run it bot? I find it tough to farm with her against many matchups in mid so I've been trying shyvana heal/smite in bot as an APC, works very well against squishy enemies because you can turn it into a solo killer lane or make them back as soon as you hit 6 by chunking them allowing safer dragons, plates and tower. When I know it's safe to do it, I try to hit as many people with my ult then reposition with flash+w if i'm being focused and low on hp, the ult hits for a lot and has some CC, combined with the E+W+Q after I hit with the ult, I almost always kill a squishy carry/jungler instantly, then, when I reposition I hit another E or 2 to help my team, I find it harder to burst when I ult near the team fight and then just E because the team fights can go very wrong in between Es if I haven't killed someone yet or if I fail an E. High sustain supps like soraka let me get close and combo E+Q on them, even on tanky supps you can chunk them heavily if you are healed while EQing and usually get a kill even though you were being focused by both bot laners, assassins like pyke also go well when the enemy laners are squishy an E or 2 can also setup their health to be in range of pyke's ult, going with an assassin support is riskier, but when it works it snowballs hard. The hardest part is having a support that understands how shyvana trades and her power spykes, some supports I've found get very confused and just die trying to all-in at the wrong times, in hard to farm lanes I take smite and sometimes ult to farm+chunk, I do nashor's tooth as first item if I'm not running smite to reset R quickly. Have you tried her APC bot? It feels like it is a high skill pick because it is a little hard specially to farm, and I would probably need a support that wants to practice it too, but so far seems very viable. I'm starting to believe it may be her best position, both APC and jungle, and honestly I prefer to play her APC rather than jungle.

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The major problem with bot lane is that you split experience, delaying your level 6 by quite a few minutes. Shyvana is absolutely helpless until level 3 and mostly useless until 6, so you can't really afford any delay. She struggles to survive the early lane against one champion, let alone two, so you'd need to run a high sustain support to have any hope of surviving. Just sounds like a bad time to me, can't see it being more useful than either solo lane. Plus you're out of an AD carry for reliable damage in the late game and for tower siege. Marksmen who aren't Lucian struggle in solo lanes. What rank are you? Bot probably does fine in low elo against people who don't know how to efficiently harass and push advantages, but I can't see it being anything short of miserable as early as low Plat.

And yeah, knowing when to RE in to gib someone and when to hang back and nuke from range is super important and has to be looked at on a case by case basis. If you can kill the only threat on their team and know their escapes are down, it's worth making the suicide play to gib them. If your team is behind or you can't get a good setup to do so safely though, you'd just throw your life away, get CCed immediately, probably not even get the E off onto your target, and do less damage than if you had stayed away and poked them down.

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I was gold when I wrote this and I would agree that playing her bot is troublesome now. Mainly because you need a really specific team composition and matchup. For example a good Draven is very hard to deal with when your support has no heals. I'm platinum 3 right now, stopped playing shyvana and played statistically op champions, I was able to climb faster (I played amumu, rammus, Sona and rakan). To go from plat 4 to 3 I used shyvana though because the skill felt just like silver except for the rare adc with diamond mechanics. Shyvana stats are poor unfortunately, I was surprised to see that she was, probably still is, the champion with the least win rate in Challenger out of all champions. I think the fact that she isn't a CC tank nor an early Agressor/ganker makes her very off meta. Still very fun to play tho. Another champion that plays very similarly to ap shyvana and does what she does better is nidalee. Higher melee burst and better single Target ranged burst. More mobility as well. I think I may try utility tank shyvana and report here how it's been

Shyvana Mid: Draconic Supremacy

Shyvana Mid: Draconic Supremacy

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