Shyvana is a strong champion, but her passive still seems pretty underwhelming.
Compared to other passives in the game this one just feels terrible. 5 + 5 resistances per dragon? So let's look at this from a gold perspective. 40 armor is 800 gold. 40 MR is 720 gold. So 1 armor = 20 gold, 1 MR = 18 gold. Which means Shyvana gains (18 * 5 ) + (20 * 5) = 190 gold of bonus per dragon. What? So if your team coordinates PERFECTLY, and gets four dragons, the best you get is 190 * 5 = 950 gold. If you're in Dragon form 20% of the game (a large overestimate in my opinion), you get a bonus (950 / 5) gold. So technically it's 950 + 190 = 1140 gold. This is at MAXIMUM, assuming your team got FOUR dragons, which is unlikely.
I'm going to say the average gold gain is around **700 **if you get two dragons.
700 gold is not much. Compare it to someone like Jax's passive, also a mobile dueler, who gains up to 96% attack speed, which is 2400 gold, not to mention it's much easier to stack 8 attacks than 4 dragons.
Also the bonus resistance seems somewhat useless while fighting. You don't notice anything special when you gain 20-40 armor and MR and you already have 100 of each; that's only like a 6-7% damage reduction AT MOST (again assuming you have 4 dragons.)
So even if you have to nerf Shyvana's numbers a little bit, can we please see a better passive for a duelist? It can still have to do with dragons, like Shyvana burns enemies with the mark of the dragon. Every third autoattack or tick of Burnout will deal a bonus (50% AD) true damage per second for 3 seconds. This damage is increased by (10/15/20% AD) for every dragon slain. Elder dragon will double the effect.
That's just an example; don't judge the post based on that just take into account how Shyvana's passive feels worthless in play and doesn't offer much.
had arguably the worst passive in the game while still being the strongest ADC during last season? It's okay, I'd rather they balance champions kits as a whole instead of one ability at a time.
his Q might be one of the strongest abilities in league, yet his W is the longest silence left in the game on an AoE, extremely strong, and his R might well be THE best objective securing ability while also giving him scaling. Yet he is very much an underwhelming champion in the current meta, it's all about kit cohesion.
[zombie-brand-mindblown]