Buffing Shyvana and nerfing her entire playstyle in the same patch

Rαy·1/24/2019, 1:48:15 AM·17 votes·10,033 views

Slightly buffing Shyvana's E and her ability to kill drakes is completely useless if you are gutting her ability to farm up to actually do things by reducing jungle experience in the same patch.

Oh, level 2 spam gankers are too good? Well let's make that the only viable playstyle, shall we?

Nice one, Riot.

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MorgManBasher1/24/2019, 1:34:54 PM3 votes

Shyvana item 3115 item 3116 item 3089 item 3165 summoner 12 summoner 4

Illabethe1/24/2019, 1:56:44 AM2 votes

You do realize she is going to level 3 Drake, right?

They didn't just buff her to Drake damage. They also buffed her on E % Damage by 75%.

She is going to shred Drakes with just item 1039 +item 1041 .

P.S. The jungle nerf affects almost all junglers equally, except perhaps Rengar, Kha Zix, and Lee Sin, who rely on getting in Champ fights early more than killing camps.

FCJAAAAGOOOO1/24/2019, 5:47:26 PM2 votes

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Shyvana a counterjungler before she's ever a ganker? Don't her buffs only help her more with doing that? Won't enemy junglers be just as low-leveled/even lower than Shyv as well?

Also correct me if I'm wrong but don't jungle creeps still give bonus exp if you're the lowest level on your team? I don't see how that nerfs any other non-aggro junglers. They should be fine as well and will play around level spikes.

IP Masquerena1/24/2019, 8:03:32 AM1 votes

So let me get this straight:

Boards: "Riot gutted powerfarming and only level 2 gankers are viable now"

LS: "So now Riot buffed power farming"

If I'll have to chose one side, I'll side with LS for the simple reason that's he's a guy who coaches pros and challengers, so I think he knows his stuff better than the boards.

SAMASAL1/24/2019, 8:14:40 PM1 votes

Shyvy need some serious buffs, or revert that huge rework/nerf they did last time :(