Crossbreed Shyvana Back At It!

With the removal of Devour, I've been struggling to find a build for my favorite scaly crossbreed that gives me the same potential to hyper carry as previous patches.

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

Previously, my core setup was ionian boots, Devour, and Triforce; making sure to take scaling CDR quints and glyphs along with the fevor of battle keystone mastery. In concert with Sated Devour, this allowed me to have a Q that was on something like a 0.5 cd and a perma-burnout when pummeling the crap out of enemy units. Burnouts' damage was being constantly applied and re-applied and combined with a stream of sheen-procs, crits, and endless Qs, i basically ripped apart anything that came near me. But alas, Triforce crits no longer and Devour has been removed, and for the better I think. As much as I loved this build, I despised Devour Master Yi and Nocturne with a passion that burns brighter than a thousand stars exploding.

So, now that I can't instantly implode any squishy that gets near, what's a sometime Shyvana player to do?

Oh I know, lets try bloodrazor! Its gives attackspeed and percent current health damage. Its like a bootlegged Blade of the Ruined King, its the perfect jungle item for her right? Right?

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

After a couple of games, its safe to assume that this thing is a piece of crap on her and I'm never building it ever again. Ever. It does nowhere near that amount of damage Devour did, even in its unsated state, and it makes you squishy as hell. I know attackspeed synergizes well with Shyvana's kit, but attackspeed means nothing when you're dead in half a second. The thing about Sated Devour is, is that you did so much damage that you basically murdered everyone before they could exploit the fact that you were squishy (in the mid-game at least). I find myself doing little to no damage in the mid-game and dying frighteningly quickly. So I'm just gonna go ahead and get this

And grab while I'm at it. Ever since ghost was buffed it has worked wonders in situations when I have to engage or escape. The speed boost lasts a good while. Be sure to take the 15% cd on summoner spells mastery so its not on cd forever. Get yourself some ionian boots and its literally up every 2 minutes.

I replaced Trinity Force with Black Cleaver, buy myself a Wit's End, Deadman's Plate and ZZrot Portal.

12/0/18 Masteries, being sure to pick up Strength of the Ages. Along with Cinderhulk, you become tanky as hell really quickly. AD Reds, Attack Speed Quints, Scaling Armor yellows, and Scaling CDR blues. By the time you finish your boots, Cinderhulk, and Black Cleaver, you should have 40% CDR. I like to call this build the Shredder.

So what does the Shredder build allow you to do exactly?

Well, it allows you to effectively rip apart...everything. Black Cleaver armor shred, along with Wit's End magic resist drain and gain allows you to tear through tank defenses and bull through their AP attacks. Squishies, as you would've guessed, have it worse off. They don't build much resistances to begin with and since you'll have something like 3700 hp (over 4000 with that tanky elixer), over 230 armor and 200 magic resist (when auto attacking with wits end) you aren't actually going to die anytime soon. You're shredding their defenses, your burnout it constantly flaring around you, there is no hope for the squishy that thinks hiding behind a wall of tanks is gonna save them (if you play correctly that is). I've been able to stand in the middle of enemy teams, beating their squishies to death and doing constant aoe magic damage with burnout, while completely ignoring most of their attacks. While they focus me, my team moves in. And the thing is, is that if i play it right, I don't have to die like most initiators. Shyvana was never a good teamfight initiator. Unlike hec, vi, or malph, her ult can interrupted, which is bullcrap, but learn to play around it. I'm just a silver III pleb so I have no idea if I'm on to something or I'm talking out of my ass but the Shredder build seems to be working fine for me. Shyvana auto-attacks a lot, her Q does 100% of her AD, and her W and her E's is magic damage so I kinda assumed Blackcleaver/Wits End would do well. Didn't think it would amount to much but i find myself able to act as not only a teamfight initiating tank, but also deal enough damage to quickly take care of the enemy carries (adc's mostly). I recall losing the early game hard one session, completing my Black Cleaver and Wits End, chasing down the enemy carries with ghost and burnout (along with rage passive from BC) and getting an instant triple kill. I really think that players better than I can make really good use of this build.

What do you guys think?

P.S I know this could've been shorter but I kinda like to write so...yeah.