What I love about Shyvana

And why I fear her being turned into another "Build black cleaver and maybe pubstomp" Darius style champion.

What I love about her current design: 1: Focused around map awareness, strategy and objective play. Not just raking in kills by twitching better. She doesn't wait for the game to happen around her. She makes it happen. She forces team fights, she pushes lanes and towers, she takes objectives(often solo), she makes enemies run away.

2: Versatile builds. I have seen players in Diamond+ build her AD, AP, On-Hit, Bruiser, Tank, Burst, DPS, Duelist, Split push, Movespeed. Really the only bad stats on her are probably Crit Damage, Mana(duh) and heavy armor pen(since she is about 40-60% magic damage depending on build). And while some(AP) are not optimal, they still work.

3: Her skins. Even though none have altered voiceovers or amazing sound effects. They are all still really good skins. Whether you like cute and badass, sexy and primitive, epic and showy, dark and dominatrix, fun and spacer. She has GREAT skins. Tho... wish her Spacer skin had better voiceovers, at least a filter, her base lines are so out of place on that skin. http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/XfPgnrOg-riot-i-would-pay-real-money-shyvana-skin-related (Related thread)

4: Hybrid damage, Hybrid defenses. She deals roughly 40-60% magic damage depending on her build and how the game goes. Her W does AoE magic damage and magic damage on hit, her E does magic damage and %HP magic damage on hit, her ult does magic damage. Some of her potential item choices do magic damage but her Q does double AAs and her kit favors things like attack speed, fervor and items like Overall this means she gets mixed damage, which makes up for the fact that generally she doesn't get the amount of dedicated penetration a pure AD or AP champion would get. For example, while or are neither idea on Shyvana. It is hard to itemize against her because she does both forms of damage. Balancing one another out. And then there is her passive, formerly on her ult it was moved to her passive so she could benefit from it from level 1. But having that hybrid defense boost is just... solid.

5: Dueling power and clear speed. Honestly no, I don't want clearing the jungle to be a 'challenge'(aka take longer and you finish with low HP) I want to enjoy the game, I neither enjoy last hitting or clearing camps. Though optimizing my route is nice, I don't want to play a jungler who has a 'hard time' clearing. Her base stats, on hit power, passive damage and so forth, make her clear amazing. I like this. But these things go further, and give her some of the strongest dueling power in the game. Since she has so much versatility in items and can get gold easily, she can build against otherwise superior duelists. I enjoy this, it means I'm not helpless just because they picked the 'stronger' champion. I hate the entire meta of counter picking, I want my individual performance and team play to win or lose, not my matchup. Honestly I will always prefer mild burst with sustained combat power, over huge burst and done type gameplay. I did even when I played mages.

6: High base movement speed. This is super important to me. HUGE! I won't play Ashe anymore due to the nerf to her base movement speed, I'd had rather they nerfed her slow, damage, utility or anything. I come from a background of Sonic the Hedgehog, racing and free running. I cannot stand moving slow. Even without her W or boots, Shyvana feels nice, because with just movespeed Quints and movespeed from masteries she feels solid and mobile, unlike many of the turtles in this game I otherwise would enjoy, but refuse to play because spending two hours walking to lane isn't fun.

7: Symmetry, even more personal than #6. To put it simply, I have OCD, and some of the movements and abilities in this game tick me hard when I play as them, specifically: I actually love all 4 of those champions. But things about their movements, animations and visuals bother me. I love that Shyvana does not at all bother me so. Yeh.

8: Her vicious, mighty, muscular, powerful beauty. It isn't try-hard warrior like which was likely to appease SJWs, but it also isn't just a curvy, smooth seductress like . They really made Shyvana stunny, curvy, beautiful. But savage, mighty, frightening and grim. I love it. She is utterly beautiful, and as said previously, I don't think any of her skins are badly made. I would choose any one of them as my primary skin, and cycle through all of them game to game. Her voice is perfect, her dialogue is sexy, scary and epic. She all around is so lovable as a champion. I fear them aiming her too hard towards being a monster, a beauty, a muscular warrior or something else like that.

9: Punchy human form of ferocious and fast combat, commanding dragon form of destruction and power(okay, her dragon form could use some work in achieving that fantasy).

Anyway. With upcoming changes to Shyvana confirmed, these are the things I love about her current design. And I really hope Riot cares enough about us players who already love her, to listen to our input.

What do you like about Shyvana? What do you hope stays intact? How do you feel about Riot saying they are looking to make changes to her? Post below!

I love this champion. I play her nearly every game. As of now I have a 70% win rate on her in normals and 61% in ranked. She has carried me from B4-S2 and still climbing. She has given me an 'above average MMR'. I have 127.4k mastery points and level 7 on her. Been playing her since S2, played her top, then top/mid, then top/jungle, from S5 onward only jungler. I'd have more to brag about on her. But I don't play much due to full time work and school. But I'll get around to it ;D so long as Riot keeps her cool.