@Meddler What happened to the Shyvana toplane changes?

Mobius·1/6/2017, 2:22:56 AM·2 votes·623 views

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Since the W nerf is going through (with also the jungle xp nerf too), what happened to the changes you were planning for toplane Shyvana? Any ETA? Unless you address the weaknesses she has, she will never be played in the toplane again, reasons being:

  • Early trading sucks big time after you nerfed Q early damage because of Sated Devourer, which you removed, but you never reverted the nerf.

  • She could have more %hp damage from her E debuff (like 3% instead of 2.5%), so she could deal with the tanks infesting the toplane with more ease.

  • The new passive doesn't help her at all, since she's stucked on the other side of the map and she has more dragon control as a jungler, it would be cool if she could get a stack out of Rift Herald or rather make other changes that outweight this weakness.

  • W could use a buff too toplane wise, but since it affects jungler clearing too much, you could buff the on-hit part of the ability instead, so it doesn't influence Jungle Shyvana by much. Another option could be smoothing out the way the ability scale, with maybe more damage early game and same damage later on (something like 30/40/50/60/70 instead of 20/32/45/57/70).

9 Comments

Xavanic1/6/2017, 2:31:31 AM1 votes

She wasnt intended to be a top laner, they want her in the jungle, so they will only balance around her jungling and not top laning, same thing with twitch, they want him to be an adc, not a jungler so they will only balance around him being an adc

Çhåryzård1/6/2017, 3:29:54 AM1 votes

When I joined the game, all I played was toplane Shyv...I NEVER saw her go jungle, only top, which is what my friends who had been playing told me was the meta

And then idk what they did but she sucks top now and I couldn't do it anymore