In Reguard to Shyvana's New Passive on PBE Today
So I just looked today at what is now currently her new passive and now instead it's you deal a bit more damage to dragons and you gain more bonus armor and MR for each non-elder dragon you or your team slays.
Personally.... I don't know how to feel about this. I mean OK you now have more of an advantage with taking dragons since you deal more damage to them (plus smite does more damage to them as well) but at the same time we're still kinda left with her old passive which, personally, I feel is made a bit worse than before. I mean now your bonus armor and MR are tied to how many dragons you get but what if it's one of those games where you can't snag any dragons? Currently Shyv's passive still scales with level so even if you don't have any dragons you still gain the bonus stats. What we have here, though, is more of a "either you keep dragon control so your team benefits and you can still get your bonus stats scaling high as before or don't and still remain with the crummy 5 armor and MR bonus for the rest of the game." To me I don't like that feeling.
Now I know in reality this is a bit healthier than her previous suggestion of her RNG element of gaining true damage, slow resistance, damage resistance from monsters/towers, and passive CDR, and overall I kinda felt these changes wouldn't go through, but that still doesn't mean I didn't want them implemented. I actually felt these were things that meant something when you did get the right dragon and felt different than just bonus stats, like gaining them would help you become more of a viable pick to choose since you could turn into this great juggernaut-carry type of champion. Here now It's still kinda the same thing except now you have to continually make sure your bonus stats scale better as the game goes on. As well, how often can you get dragons in a game? If you manage to get them early enough maybe 4 or even 5 but from what I play on average it's usually 2 or 3 depending on how many the enemy team got or how long the game has gone on.
I'm just saying my concerns about this new passive. Again, more damage against dragons is great but I really don't feel this passive, in terms of her bonus stats, is much better than it is now.