So I played the dragon today...

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Shyvana, not AurelionSol if you were wondering. I find that nothing much has changed. I was top laner, ended with the highest cs in the game, and I got 5 dragons by the time Elder spawned. You know what my reward was? A lousy 30 Armor and MR. Not that she isn't still a strong AF duelist but all that effort? I caught every single one as soon as they spawned, and the worse part is Elder dragon doesn't even count to the stacks.

Now this is a game that went VERY well. Now imagine those games where your bot lane goes 0/5 by 10 minutes, and both of them don't even dare to ward dragon. Congrats, you have no passive, and even if you did snag one or 2, that's like 15 Armor/MR.

My thoughts on this is that while the RnG stats from the random dragons were kind of too random, they're still worth more individually compared to this shitty new one. A single fire drake buff is already far better than my 5 stacks of 5x armor/MR, and definitely more rewarding to actually go after. Dragons are limited, and not something you can easily farm up like Garen's W. I'd HATE to compare 5 dragons to a mere 120 CS.

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Zezockary3 votes

The passive change was supposed to be a nerf to compensate for the hp she got on her ult.

Personally I think they should have just taken it completely out so people wouldn't bitch so much about it but Riot wanted to be thematic.

thecowley1 votes

thats my general thoughts on it as well. I really like the rest of the ability changes to it. But this new passive is a huge nerf

bad arcade kitty1 votes

second this, her dragon related passive should go

it also makes her even worse on twisted trilane and howling abyss

Danjeng1 votes

There's also a new innate on her passive: 10% more damage vs dragons, which is pretty good. Better than the old flat 20-40 MR she got at least.

Also, other parts of her kit changed.

Asayake 5150glow1 votes

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Shyvana, not AurelionSol if you were wondering. I find that nothing much has changed. I was top laner, ended with the highest cs in the game, and I got 5 dragons by the time Elder spawned. You know what my reward was? A lousy 30 Armor and MR. Not that she isn't still a strong AF duelist but all that effort? I caught every single one as soon as they spawned, and the worse part is Elder dragon doesn't even count to the stacks.

Now this is a game that went VERY well. Now imagine those games where your bot lane goes 0/5 by 10 minutes, and both of them don't even dare to ward dragon. Congrats, you have no passive, and even if you did snag one or 2, that's like 15 Armor/MR.

My thoughts on this is that while the RnG stats from the random dragons were kind of too random, they're still worth more individually compared to this shitty new one. A single fire drake buff is already far better than my 5 stacks of 5x armor/MR, and definitely more rewarding to actually go after. Dragons are limited, and not something you can easily farm up like Garen's W. I'd HATE to compare 5 dragons to a mere 120 CS.

Wait elder doesn't count 0_o

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Also play her in the jungle, you can solo it lvl 4.

Thing is, passive resistances on Shyvana are amazing. It allows her have a build like item 3748 item 3022 item 3153 item 1416 item 3078 and still be tanky af with 5 damage/bruiser items.

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