Shyvana

No. She is crowded out by all the other top laners. She does good damage and has good defenses, but that's it. She's a bundle of stats. She has no way of securing laning kills (enemy champs can just run away from you and never engage and your W won't kill them unless they're dumb enough to stay in lane with less than 10% hp.) She's incredibly prone to kiting and if your stats aren't high enough (you don't have enough items) you'll lose trades because Shyvana is AA-reliant. I've been tryin' to find ways for the past month to make her work toplane, but I gave up yesterday. She's a really iffy pick. Riot needs to work on her.

This isn't to say she can't do well on top at times, she can, but not consistently.

Better in the jungle. Cant do well vs ranged top laners. If you know who your opponent is and they are melee then go ahead.

Until I put a few arrows in her face.

I see a lot of people taking her with smite, and I think she's pretty good depending on which champs you're facing. I personally take her jungle, but if you take her lane, focus on pushing up with lots of pots for harrass, and using your ulti and W for escaping. If you push quickly enough you can force the top laner to focus on farming. Then when minions are pushed up you go into jg and take all your jglers farm. Definitely a niche pick though, but sooo much more fun in jungle imo, her waveclear with cinder is lovely. Not a great pick for a disengage comp. She's amazing against bruisers and a heavy front line, because she has all the def of a tank with some truly, insane dmg.

She's really good for team disruption and "scaring off" adc and apc or assasinting them if there trying to fight her. I've played quite a few games with her and found it to be easiest to play and win if you build her not tanky or full ad but a bruiser. I run a mock in matches creating havoc everywhere. Taking enough points in Def tree for the armor bonus for start and a magic resist rune page +45 bonus Mr at lvl 18 quints, glyphs, armor seals and ad marks to farm easier. Starting dorans shield going ninjas tabi to black cleaver into a frozen mallet then BOTRK if I need to kill the apc faster or thornmail if the ad is an issue and I'm usually unkillable. Tip for top. Max q not w. Your trades will be stronger and burst harder, w pushes wave and makes it harder to last hit the move speed at lvl 1 is more than enough.

Well whejv5.11 comes out the passive on her w will be more worth it maybe......