Over a Whole Season After Juggernaut Update and Shyvana Top is Still in the Gutter

AFK Push·8/29/2016, 12:46:10 PM·2 votes·599 views

I understand that there are champions that get the bigger reworks, some more minor, and their were the item changes for the juggernauts. Don't get me wrong items like item 3742 item 3748 item 3053 are great on her, but she is going to inevitably be very lacking no matter what she builds.

After the nerfs of item 3153 shyvanas that aren't super ahead don't even bother with this item, due to how squishy they will be with this item opposed to other items, and that it costs way too damn much. Most shyvana's wouldn't be that far ahead in their lane anyways, meaning that they would most likely be building a item 3068 or something more cost efficient/safer first.

After her nerfs to her early damage Q, she doesn't really have much of an early game in top lane. Nearly any other champ in top can outduel her early game, even though she should be strong early due to her mixed damages, but not being able to get on top of certain champs and the fact that they just flat out do more damage makes her useless in a lot of matchups.

Her late game isn't much either, due to her having to build at least 2 damage items to be somewhat on par with other juggernauts damage wise Garen Darius Illaoi, she will also be far less tankier than any of the others on this roster. Sure she gets additional resistances as her passive (which is the most boring passive btw) and even more in her ult form, but she won't be able to make much use of the additional resistances when she won't have enough health built, mediocre mobility, an unreliable engage tool, and no sustain in her kit whatsoever.

Her lack of item synergy is what really kills me. It is actually hard to max out cdr on Shyvana without trading more than you would want for some lower cooldowns. The only 20% cdr item that she can really use is item 3078 whereas the likes of item 3071 and item 3025 are mediocre due to her being manaless and her not doing much physical damage besides her autos. The problem with item 3078 is that she will be far squishier than the other two options, and the others provide far better utility which is what she needs.

She is a decent splitpusher and dueler, but every other champ that does this in top outscales her Aatrox Tryndamere Fiora Nasus Yasuo Jax etc.

Every other bruiser or tank does a better job at teamfights, because they are able to either tank better due to being able to get away with only 1 damage item Darius , build full tank DrMundo, or actually have hard engage Malphite (hard to compare her to an actual tank, but there is no point to choose her over one).

TLDR: Give this bitch some sustain, utility, and better synergy with items.

2 Comments

Woook3r8/29/2016, 3:21:45 PM1 votes

and she can 100% stay there.

Mazariamonti8/29/2016, 3:26:54 PM1 votes

Shyvana isn't the most stupidly easy champ to use in the game anymore? Maybe I should check her out.