Shyvana QoL Buffs, Bug fixes and Visual Changes (List)
Shyvana really needs a VU, possibly even a VGU. I realize some people need it more, so a million posts of Warwick or Urgot who are already slated for that are pointless.
Here are some of my problems with her, and the solutions I have. If you have more ideas or things you feel absolutely must be listed, post below. This list may expand as more issues into mind or are suggested.
NOTHING here is meant to be a direct change on her numbers in terms of damage, range, stats, cooldowns and so forth. We will not be discussing things like her Q nerfs or anything of that sort. This is about thematics, bugs and QoL.
W Tick Rate: I would like to see Shyvana's W get the Singed treatment, I have mentioned this before but am adding it here as this is my semi-permanent list of needs for our dragon. This would changed her W to be more reliable, but more importantly it would feel much better. This would be a small buff, but is mostly QoL.
Instead of Damage per second: 20 / 32 / 45 / 57 / 70 (+ 20% bonus AD) (+ 10% AP)
It would be Damage per quarter second: 5 / 8 / 11.25 / 14.25 / 17.5 (+ 5% bonus AD) (+ 2.5% AP)
Making it smoothed out and feel a lot better. LoL is a modern game, it isn't some 2004 WoW "tick... tick... tick..." garbage for DoT. Fire, poison and other DoT with special exceptions(that I cannot think of) should burn and kill, not in twinges and ticks, but as a smooth, steady feeling. This is a step in that direction until someday Riot updates the engine and can just smooth DoTs completely.
Add a roar emote to her dragon form: Come on now, she is a damn DRAGON for anywhere from 20 seconds to unlimited amounts of time(theoretically possible). And her laugh emote and taunt are cool, yeah, whatever. But she should most certainly have a roar, this would help the dragon fantasy a lot!
Make her ult unstoppable and/or fix the cruddy hit box: Disputable whether either/both would make her too strong or not. I don't think so, with some numbers tweaks to her ult and some other places problems could be smoothed out. She is currently at a low pick and very low ban rate however, and those people still playing her are conditional picks and one tricks. So I do not think it would be a problem.
But I would rather give power elsewhere, to have reliability. The hit box is worse than Lux or Ashe ults were in S2, and the knock back completely unreliable, especially if close to the target. And the fact that her dragon transformation is not unstoppable just feels bad man, leaping as a dragon, burning your ult, only for Caitlyn to drop a tiny little trap under your feet and completely stop you mid air. Shyvana doesn't have the burst or CC that Vi has, I don't see why unstoppable status would break her, she might need some follow up tweaks at most. But it would be worth it in my opinion. People have complained about her hit box and being stopped by everything while ulting, since she came out.
Every other major dive ultimate I can think of is unstoppable once activated. Kled, J4, Malphite, Vi, Hecarim, Sion, Nocturne. So it seems more the standard to be unstoppable, not the exception.
Match her model to her artwork: Shyvana got a sexy, badass, frightening and ferocious new artwork a while back. Her original was http://i.imgur.com/lLI77GO.jpg Her new one is http://i.imgur.com/LCj0k3c.jpg
But her in game model still looks a lot more like the original one. I would love to see an update that gives her armor more accurate to her new artwork, the markings on her body and that overall much more ferocious and dangerous look.
http://i.imgur.com/DB7Lc4y.jpg For example, here is a fan remake of her model.
Fix Shyvana's Taunt: Very minor complaint, Shyvana has her gauntlets upside down during her taunt. The top of the dragon head is on the bottom and vice versa. Perhaps this is just because the animators prefered the motions to be on this side of her body, which in that case, meh, whatever. But it is still a small gripe. http://www.lolking.net/models?champion=102
Increase the size of her Model in Dragon Form This is questionable, it will make it easier for her to body block and harder for her to dodge, but visually it would be epic. So I leave it to the players and balance team to look into this.
Add more Dialogue: A lot of older champions need this. At the moment none of Shyvana's skins add or alter dialogue at all, and her main skin, like Katarina, Kayle, Ashe and many others, has very few lines. These older champions have at most a minute or so of dialogue, while some newer champions have over thirty minutes! Some new dialogue, or a Legendary/Ultimate skin would be amazing. I understand that getting a voice actor setup for it isn't easy, so I am plenty patient with new dialogue or skins that add dialogue on these champions, but it still needed to be here.
Make her E a cone flame breath in Dragon Form: By high rate of suggestion this also seems to be a necessary change. I agree, her E in dragon form being just 5 projectiles like a Riven ult or something is just unappealing. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the art team doing a great job on the special effects on some of the skins for this. But as a dragon, she should be breathing a wave of fire out, more similar to Annie's W.
There was one specific thing I wanted to add that was thematic/visual, but for the life of me I cannot remember it, it and all other additions will be made as they come. And when they do I will edit the main post and bump them in the comments as well.
Thoughts, suggestions, complaints? Post them below.
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http://img05.deviantart.net/c860/i/2014/365/7/c/shyvana_ice_drake_by_lataedelan-d8c3nfa.jpg
EDIT: To clarify, I know she already got a pass, but it was incomplete. Honestly one of the worst passes a champion ever got. They didn't fix her base model just a quick retexture, they didn't look at her ult mechanics, they did not give her any new lines of dialogue, they did not do a proper pass on her abilities, they didn't look into any of the problems her community complained about, they didn't give her a Statikk Shyv Skin.
What they did do was add an AP scaling to her W on hit... which would be nice I guess if Rageblade was useful or Tri-Force still gave AP. They updated her splash which was AWESOME! They fixed some things on her textures. And that is all I can think of... wow... really amazing 'VGU'. She deserves better.
