Is shyvana top even playable nowadays

d4rkshock··4 votes·4,715 views

Shyvana top is one of my lost to the ages olden time picks. The first thing I was good at. Even against real players. Then some time after I stopped playing against bots, it just completed stopped. It wasn't gradual. It was sudden. At that moment when I heard how good of a jg she was and cinderhulk came out, I took to the jg and started going on absolute massacres. Sated devour comes out and I slaughter everyone when I get 30 stacks with Titanic Hydra. Not very many people's knew about it until devour junglers were extremely popular outside of yi. I've never taken her top ever since. I've seen some high elo players play against it but haven't watched the videos or anything. Her abilities cost no Mana and the skillshot goes through minions so she can be a good lane bully. She is also a good splitpusher. Think of her as udyr. That's a trick2G classic.open the gates by 15 minutes. Shyvana can do the same thing. Anyways this isn't the only time a role has been lost. Some older players remember karthus jungle. That was one of his intended roles. Udyr top was a thing and another trick2G pick.yi isn't seen top anymore and tryndamere isn't seen jungle. The list goes on. Anyways is shyvana top even playable.

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FooDang4 votes

Her new passive pisses me off.

d4rkshock2 votes

That also made it so now she has to leave lane to kill dragon. Rip.

Mira Arya Enthe2 votes

Yes she is. I take her into matchups like Renekton, Mundo, Nautilus, Shen and Irelia to pretty good success. She isn't ideal but it can work. But you need different runes and masteries than in the jungle and have to build more offensively early game with items like BotRK and Ravenous Hydra.

Thickasblood2 votes

I know its 2 months old now, but i currently main shyv at top, she is probably one of the strongest duelist in the game, but i feel like you really need to pick up smite even tough you're top. Because rushing a bloodrazer will get you that powerspike to take out anyone in a faceoff for its low price, and challenging smite ensure you to win a trade.

It also mean you can leave lane and solo a drag that your jungle cannot, usually just ask him to cover for a bit and take 2 jungle camp on your way back, she completely anihilate herald without taking damage, just avoid the aoe running in circle all the time. It also allow you to leave lane and clear a jungle camp or skuttle to have your enemy laner push and jump him aggressively again when you come back. Since her ult charges so fast with bloodrazer and Botrk, you dragon, go clear a camp, dragon again.

Darkdemon6531 votes

She was never playable top.

RaiokuMoonscar3 votes

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She was never playable top.

lol she used to be the most op top laner m8

d4rkshock2 votes

I'd know because I played her in s4/5 and it was rediculous until mid season. Then sated devour comes out and o take her jg and I learn about Titanic hydra before it was cool and started slaughtering everyone in most of my games.

Dark Nephthys1 votes

I've been playing her on and off top lane since Season 3. Back in Season 3-5 she was really good and strong top lane, even when she was hardly if ever saw top lane. Now she is kind of meh, though I've been trying to get back into playing her top lane now. Personally, I feel she can work top lane depending on the match ups and I feel she is best when you build 2 damage items and then tank afterwards. So I generally build something like item 3153 item 3078 item 3068 item 3065 Are my main core items. While I haven't tried it yet but the new item 3001 would probably be really good on her now.

The issue with her now in this meta is that some of her match ups where she used to do very well into (Tanks) are going to be much harder to deal with because of Courage. I'd say if you want to player her top you can but be careful with doing so in Ranked, and might be best to wait to see who you are facing first.

d4rkshock1 votes

I don't do it. I used to. Haven't doe it since she started doing bad in s5.

Arcus Diabolus1 votes

I need to pick her back up holy shit...

It feels like ages now.

FioraWillCarry1 votes

Wait a minute. Wasn't Shyvana one of 3 champions that dominated top lane in season 5 ? She, Renekton and some other champ I can't remember were called the holy trinity of top lane if I remembered correctly.

d4rkshock1 votes

She was op in s5. Then things just went down hill in mid season then I started slaughtering everyone in the jungle with sated devourer. Shyvana top is how I got started and I was destroying shit.

Immaculate Rhea1 votes

She's a decent top laner, but it really all depends on what you build. Getting something like sunfire and tiamat is good for waveclear, but she also excels at splitpushing

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