According to championgg, she was 4.61% Picked in patch 6.1
Fast forward to Patch 6.5 and she got a 11.93 Pick rate, almost three times as much as before in Plat+
Did someone streamed steamrolling with her,LCS, or word of mouth?
Lets see how much the nerfs will plummet her play rate
Shooo Freelo FOTM Abusers
Malhammers1 votesTitanic Hydra and Devourer....Devourer got nerfed, Titanic Hydra is getting a big nerf, and Shyvana herself is getting a nerf (her Q damage much lower)...
So she will go away soon.
Deus Imperator1 votesTitanic Hydra and Devourer....Devourer got nerfed, Titanic Hydra is getting a big nerf, and Shyvana herself is getting a nerf (her Q damage much lower)...
So she will go away soon.
Except, those tools were always at her disposal? Devourer and titanic i mean
Slythion1 votesShe's getting so overnerfed it isn't even funny, I'm actually a bit pissed that riot thought Shyvana herself needed nerfs after 2 of her core items got significant nerfs as well...like wtf
Dark Nephthys1 votesGood bye my top lane 
...Top Shyv is already hard to do well with atm, and with all these nerfs to her and Titanic, it'll be almost impossible to play her well top lane. Then again, I don't always build Titanic on her for top lane so maybe I'll do alright since I usually build 
and then tank items after, though with her Q nerfs her dueling is going to be much worse in lane.
I hate how Riot never thinks/cares for what they are doing to these champions in other roles when they nerf them. I get that Shyvana is op with Devour + Titanic together and they'res not as much opening to counter her since she can clear camps so easily but I think this is a bit overboard. Especially when we all know that Devour will get nerfed hard again in the future since to many champions are op with it, so why would they nerf Shyvana herself like this, knowing that they'll probably hit Devour again? The Burnout not dealing extra damage to monsters is fine, no problem with that nerf, but the early damage from her Q dropping by like half is to much on top of it.
I'll probably still just play her top and hope that she'll get compensation buffs in the future or reverts on some of the nerfs. Shyvana has been my main for top lane since early season 3 when I basically started playing League, even back then when she was terrible and considered a troll for top lane I still played her there, so I'm sure I'll learn to adjust but...Riot is sure making it hard to spend time on getting better with champions when champions are always getting popular in other roles and getting nerfed in that popular role and then nerfed even harder in other roles.
Skia Asteri1 votesIt did the same last year until a minor nerf, and then there was preseason where everyone was playing early pressure junglers or Mundo then it was Runic Echoes. Once all that was nerfed her win rate returns to pre-nerf levels and play rate goes up again.