Why exactly is Shyvanna so high up on the update schedule?

TheLastBaron88·8/9/2015, 1:32:35 PM·7 votes·699 views

Riot has been discussing looking at her and Olaf after the Juggernaut changes are finished, and Olaf sorta makes sense with his obscenely low play rate, even though I hold that he is actually pretty good. Maybe a bit too mana-hungry.

But Shyvanna? Shyvanna is one of the strongest junglers in solo queue right now if you know how to play her, even before the devourer changes went live. No, she doesn't have point and click CC (or really any inherent cc), but there is totally a smite item for that now. She more than delivers on damage and tankiness. Really if I had to address anything about her, it would be to stop cc from interrupting her ultimate, or at the very least to make her ultimate actually deliver on the knockback it's supposed to provide. I've entirely stopped trying to use it in ganks because of how often it just makes you fly over your targets head.

If you're honestly going to give me the reasoning that her current kit is too good with devourer, then maybe you should be looking at devourer again instead, seeing as how any champion who can abuse it is absurdly over the top right now. (Yi, Xin, and Udyr all come to mind, and are probably even stronger in terms of what they do outside the jungle)

20 Comments

Hasztalan28/9/2015, 3:11:54 PM3 votes

So u think Olaf is pretty okay-ish despite his playrate.

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Matezoide8/10/2015, 6:44:58 PM2 votes

Shyvana is one of these champions that goes from useless to broken depending on the Meta. I assume thats why she is getting changed.

Gigahappytown8/10/2015, 7:05:14 PM2 votes

because shyvanas kit is braindead while extremely effective thats not healthy gameplay.

Ser Garland8/9/2015, 3:50:28 PM1 votes

Shyvana JUST became popular when Devourer Sated came out. She wasn't played jungle anymore than top lane until then. Now she's only being played jungle for the damn abuse of that jungle item.

FYI when a champion needs to abuse new items to be good. They need a rework.

Erockandroll8/9/2015, 3:21:19 PM1 votes

They were on an off again with her for a while now. She was Either too strong or too weak, with fewer CC and fewer skill based tools to make interesting game play around. And She doesn't have the Kitability of the other Juggernauts, so you can't compare her to them either.

She was weak, then top lane Cinderhulk came. Then that got nerfed. Then Devourer came. She got preemptively nerfed, but still strong with that item. It's like she's a completely item dependent Yo-yo, who's viability is deturmaned by the items available to her. Now why wouldn't you work to make her a little less dependent on item? So that she could do fairly regardless of the items and of the meta.

Only Play Darius8/9/2015, 3:15:12 PM1 votes

Because she is infuriating to play against. She is just free stats with ridiculous MS steroid. She's like Volibear in that there isn't a shred of mechanical finesse or strategic planning in playing her, except even more spam-happy since she is resourceless.

Penguin Eclipse8/9/2015, 3:17:04 PM1 votes

Shyv doesn't really need a rework. Just some tuning.