Shyvana's current state holds no identity

PapaGreg21··1 votes·400 views

Her q nerfs have made her dueling average in the early game (to where she is miserable in top lane) and she doesn't have any items or scaling abilities that are currently strong to help her into mid-late game. There's very little reason to not pick Jax, Yi or Xin instead who scale much better if you plan on AFK farming and have better ganks as well. You could argue that Shyvana clears faster than them but honestly who cares if there isn't a power spike she is shooting for. Somebody at Riot needs to look at the nerf to her twin bite and think about buffing it since devourer is now gone or possibly taking a look at buffing BOTRK again.

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Sonicblaster331 votes

I kinda agree with this. Her nerf wasn't really needed because she was just fine the way she was. But I just came back from Surrenderat20 and saw that Shyvana is getting an AP ratio on her W. Don't know if this will buff her but it might be good if you build Rageblade

Beldair1 votes

Guess there goes my tank build.....Now i have to swap an item for AP....

Sonicblaster331 votes

it's only 25% of her ap, at most, you should get a rageblade now

Hethalean1 votes

Riot posted a context post about it. It's mainly there to help certain champs (Yi, Shy, etc) feel less bad about buying some hybrid items if that is what you do.

Beldair1 votes

I like Shyv. I build her tanky and tend to really shine late game.

I don't get the new jg item on her though, i always get Cinderhulk then follow that up with DMP. My next item tends to be Titanic Hydra, then Botrk. Then it's Berserker's. With either Warmog's, Spirit Visage, or Banshee's Veil.

Nahui1 votes

Good. Let her rest for a while and let others into the meta.

Raiku Kawisa1 votes

Riot reverting a nerf to a champion after they nerfed/removed the item that made that Champion OP? Thats crazy talk.

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