my lvl 3 shyvana with warmog and 6 shapeshifter buff just got instakilled by phantom buff

So, the game worked as intended and that's an issue for some reason? wat

you got unlucky, phantom buff is the RNG of all buffs. yeah we know its an annoying buff.

You positioned Shyvana to the front-line and she got oneshotted, don't you? So is not totally a RNG bad luck.

lol try Hearthstone you'll appreciate tft

While phantom is rng, that rng compensates for a comp that has conceded more powerful units for essentially a game start 1 unit advantage. While the player who has their carry phantomed may see this as an unfair rng disadvantage, that scenario is ecaxtly why people play phantom to begin with. Often, to win a match against super synergies it is important to insta-gib a specific unit. While all units in a comp could be seen as solid targets, it is usually only noticeable when phantom hits the carry or the main tank. At the point that you have 6 units on the board, knowing that you mentioned 6 shapeshifters thus the minimum unit variable, your shyv will be hit 1/6 of the time (~17%) which is a non-zero sum, but more importantly the highest likelihood that your shyv will be phantomed. As you add units to the board the chance diminishes. That said, you will have a single unit in your comp hit by phantom 100% of the time, and that being the case it is important to allow rng to decide how devastating an effect it will have on the round. If phantom were targeted it would be too powerful, but as an rng tool it is actually relatively balanced imo.

Instant KO or in this case near instant KO effects are for PvE games and even then its for the player to use against the environment. When its the other way around the player is given counter options, usually items that prevent the effect outright.

No matter how low the chance of such an effect is, it wont be balanced. You either run into it or you don't, or in the example of Phantom, it either hits a target that gets killed shortly after or that target lives long enough to make the effect relatively useless.

For me this effect is up there with hextech as a terrible option in the game. Other notables are stun, silence, shrink, 100% anti-heal and 100% mana burn.

Sounds like you got outplayed by RNG.

There needs to be a way to shut down the hypercarry Shyvana. Warmog + Lifesteal + AS on Shyvana makes her unstoppable.