I AM A FIRE BREATHING DRAGON!!! RAWR!!!
Ability power Shyvana mid is so much fun!! Your fireball actually feels like it is a mighty dragon breathing firing with how much it chunks people, especially when you use it during your ultimate!
I went with Glacial Augment, 45% CDR, Magical Boots, Biscuits, Sorcery into 10% CDR and Gathering Storm. You can experiment what you like best, but the reason for glacial augment was because Shyvana does not have crowd control in her kit (besides for the slight push of her ultimate) so the slow helps a lot for more W damage and such.
The good items be things like: ~ Nashor's Tooth - CDR, attack speed and on hit damage with Q (basically rush this because of the CDR and dueling boost that it gives) ~ Liandry's Torment - health, damage amp and % max health burn ~ Hextech Gunblade - slow, burst damage, can use all of the stats and healing ~ Morellonomicon - health, magic pen and grievous wounds ~ Rylai's Crysttal Scepter - health and slow ~ Zhonya's Hourglass - CDR, armour and stasis active ~ Banshee's Veil - CDR, magic resistance and spell shield ~ Sorcery Boots - magic pen, can go Ionian Boots if you value the CDR more than raw damage ~ Void Staff - Shyvana does like 98% magic damage regardless of her build
For your leveling order. Max E and W and ignore Q until you are ready to upgrade to Nashor's Tooth then place one point into Q to double Nashor's Tooth's passive.
Your level 1 may be decent based on who you are against, but overall you are a melee mid still with strong wave clear with E and especially the combination of E+W if you can get into melee range, kind of like Diana in that regards. You scale a lot harder than your early game, so stay save and farm up and then by like 2+ items you start feeling powerful with more AP items you build the more power you add on to yourself.
The most important thing however... YOU ARE A FLIPPING FIRE BREATHING POWERFUL DRAGON AND IT MAKES YOU FEEL THIS WAY!! RAWR!!
complain to me about balance because of this buff.
And I'm just over here, watching her reset Q over and over
All in all, Riot did a good thing for Shyv. Makes me so happy
firefighter u XD.