When is Shyvana going to be the jungler she Should to be?

FioraKuriu·4/4/2017, 4:00:56 PM·5 votes·724 views

As we all know, Shyvana is one of the many tank junglers League has to offer. However, just like Volibear and some other champions, Shyvana is starting to fall off into the face of obscurity. As a Level 4 Shyvana, I Love playing her. There's just several problems that have resulted in me not playing her to Level 5

One of the biggest issues is that Despite her role as a Tank, and even With items, she can easily get bursted down no matter what. I understand that adc's, yes, are meant to be tank shredders. But when an adc plow into a Shyvana faster than a Poppy , and Shyvana Can get to Poppy level of tankiness if she wanted to, then something really seems off there.

The other big issue which I kinda made a request for, because I personally feel it's necessary: is a renewed kit for her. They might have changed her passive to steer her more toward jungle, and her W does make for an easier clear. But outside of jungle, what can she do? Her R is fine, and being able to bolt into teamfights with her R does help. Her W in battle can only give her movement speed and slowly depleting the enemy's health bar. Even with her W's movement speed, it also doesn't make the Best escape option. It does work, it just doesn't seem like it's good enough.

With her Q and E, it feels like they're the most useless of all her abilities. Especially her Q. Her Q might give her extra damage, and it helps toward clears, but what if you can't get close enough to use it against an enemy? Then it's rendered useless, so long as you can get close enough. And that's Before you get potentially get bursted down by the front line. As for her E, it also helps in her clears (especially getting Raptors or Krugs). But other than that, what does her E Do? In team fights, I never really see myself using her E unless it's to try and get the low-health escapees.

It might be just me in regards to her abilities and her kit, but honestly, I just Really love Shyvana. As someone who Wants to play her in this current meta, trying it against the current junglers seems really lackluster all the time. She gets bursted down too easily but she also gets out-damaged by other junglers (Examples: Warwick, LeeSin , MasterYi). I want to see Shyvana get some love, like the other underrated champions out there. Before she falls off into the nothingness like her senpai JarvanIV

14 Comments

Mira Arya Enthe4/4/2017, 4:19:14 PM5 votes

230k mastery point Shyvana jungle main here.

http://i.imgur.com/ErEsPAU.jpg http://i.imgur.com/NR62Gus.jpg

A: Shyvana is not a tank, you should not be expecting to get as tanky as Poppy or as much CC as Poppy. She is a Juggernaut/Diver hybrid. Compare her to champions like Olaf, Darius and Vi not Poppy.

B: Shyvana is definitely suffering on Design, her minirework helped but if farm jungling won't be supported again she needs to be given the ability to gank.

C: Shyvana should NOT be given more tankiness. Maybe a very minor CC in her kit, a tiny buff to her previously nerfed Q or a tiny bit of in fight sustain. Otherwise she is not a high priority rework, she will get her turn after many other champions.

If you need help playing Shyvana I suggest SpikeThePike's Shyvana guide.

http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/season-7-shyvana-jungle-total-guide-the-most-in-depth-427599 updated patchly since S4.

Also watch Valkrin when he plays her or Minerva. Both player her moderately often and very well.

http://www.probuilds.net/champions/details/Shyvana Shyvana is built for damage, look at those builds for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7YblabOlB8

Ralanr4/4/2017, 4:04:36 PM5 votes

Shyvana Can get to Poppy level of tankiness if she wanted to,

No she can't and it's not even because she isn't a tank. It's because of Poppy's W.

And I wouldn't call Shyvana a tank jungler (she does get very tanky though). I'm not an expert on her (I'll leave that to Mira) but I believe you shouldn't really be playing her like you should play a tank.

Linna Excel4/4/2017, 4:22:22 PM3 votes

Shyvana isn't a tank.

Aszathoth4/4/2017, 4:07:49 PM3 votes

Shyv honestly is a lot more like Yi than a tank like voli. She's all about farming (not afk farming though) for the lategame cause when she hits lategame with a bruiser build she fucking wrecks people far quicker than they wreck her. Especially with her dragon form.

Maximum Morde4/4/2017, 4:08:52 PM1 votes

I like her better as an AP solo laner.

PapaGreg214/6/2017, 2:11:54 PM1 votes

Shyvana should not be played as a tank. You aren't going to win any games that way.