I've been considering buying another top laner and I have my eyes on Shyvana. I've heard she's kind of in a weak spot atm so I am kind of questioning whether I should buy her or not. Any tips or advice to help me decide (I'm also set on buying Trundle)
The top laners I play currently are Rumble, Lulu, Maokai, and Nidalee.
TonyTonyMordecai3 votesAfter buying Shyvana recently, I have to say, she is a fun champ to play as, and is worth giving a whirl. She is in a weak spot, since the only jump/escape is her ult once she has 100 fury. The only reason she's in that spot, is because all other top laners have better CC skills than Shyvana, and she has a knock back from her ult. But I thoroughly enjoy her a lot. I went against a Riven with a Hecarim Jungle, and I had a friend as Irelia Jungle. The movement speed burst from Shyvana's W saved me whenever Hecarim attempted to gank me. If you'd like, I can tell you an ideal item build for Shyvana
Aozora1 votesI'd love that thanks. I've noticed that I like playing champions that can help their team a lot like utility mages such as Ori, Lulu, and sometimes Syndra, tanky top laners/ top laners with great teamfighting potential like Rumble, Trundle, and Maokai. I really hope Shyvana can fulfill my expections.
TonyTonyMordecai2 votesOh, don't worry.
Shyvana is great against most teams that go AD, because you will have so much armor, and your abilities and items towards the end add a LOT of DPS damage and utility to offset a battle by pushing people to the side or towards your team.
An item build that I usually go with is:
Of course, you can change out the boots for the MR boots if opposing team is AP, mostly, and BOTRK/SunFire is always built first. If you are ahead or haven't died or gotten a kill/tower, build BOTRK, if not, get SunFire. Everything else can be built whenever or be switched out for something else.
Attack Speed, Armor, and Health are good things to get for Shyvana.
Max Abilities: W-Q-E, and R whenever possible.
Normally initiate with R, use W to move faster, use E to start dealing more damage, and use Q to deal more damage on your next AA.
EndlessSorcerer3 votesShe's not in the best spot at the moment after her nerfs, the nerfs to the Perseverance mastery, Spirit Visage and Sunfire Cape, and the meta shift to ranged top laners. She's probably still viable, but not as strong as she once was.
I prefer durable top laners with high scaling, so I would recommend trying Irelia, Nasus, and Mundo. This advice also applies to Trundle. They scale very well in duels and teamfights, Irelia is very strong against ranged opponents and also capable of dueling bruisers, and are very difficult to push out of lane with a Doran's Shield and Health Regen quints augmenting their natural sustain.
Though, judging by your current top laners you seem to prefer lane bullies. If that's the case, I would suggest Gnar, Yorick, and Kayle.
Aozora1 votesYeah I do play a lot of lane bullies, but I'm looking to branch out to guys that provide a crap ton of utility as a front liner in teamfights. I've tried Trundle and really do like him despite him not being that amazing at pushing the enemy out of lane.
Thanks for the advice and I do have Kayle, but for some reason never really played her. I'll definitely consider her now. :)
EndlessSorcerer2 votesThe big thing about Trundle is that you have to abuse your sustain during laning. Make a lot of small trades and leave yourself time to heal between them. He is a great counter for most melee tanks and bruisers.
I would recommend building Blade of the Ruined King, Randuin's Omen, and Spirit Visage as your core in most situations. You can switch Randuin's Omen for Sunfire though if you want to push faster. He's a great splitpusher, though I tend to have trouble with him in teamfights.
Aozora1 votesWell from the few times I played him what I do in teamfights is I engage using his pillar to split up the enemy team then follow up with my W, R onto the tank or their ADC, and basically all in them. Q is great for lowering AD's damage so I always try to use that when it's up.
I also try to fake them out with my Ice pillar. I dropped the pillar and moved forward as if I was going to start the fight causing the enemy Lee Sin to waste his ult.
Sneaky Viet Cong2 votestry j4 with ad and armor pen. remember to use ur passive often. u can beat anybody
Aozora1 votesI remember giving J4 a try and that I didn't like him very much. Thank you for your advice though, I'll consider trying him again in the future.
S2C2Xd9KOy2 votesIf I play Shyvana, its jungle. She's pretty good honestly when used and built right, but you have to get the gold from ganking and counter jungling well. She has a pretty fast clear time which helps. With her nerfs and Cinderhulk being nerfed, she's kind of in a bad way atm, defintiely still usable though. Also, her dance emote is adorable, which is the most important part.
exiledFromBadmen1 votesI think she's gonna be more viable for jungling after this season. I play her as jungler a lot, I recently got a quadra :)
WeG1 votesGot a penta in ranked as Shyvana the other day, in my gold promos no less. She's not a safe 1st pick anymore, but if you aren't countered laning can be a breeze and carrying is definitely possible. I disagree with the people who build BOTRK first though, unless I'm against a Mundo for example. Tiamat ftw.
newbornblood1 votesshes really good but shes a mix of top laner/jungle/river
newbornblood1 votesas shyv get flash point to either escape or get ontop of a fleeing enemyusing burnout and sunfire cape and finish with twin bite usually takes them out if thyre at half health if u build right id actually use her recomended build for the most part and get lifesteal items and movement speed because most enemies will flee from shyv as soon as they c her shes op 1v1 irella may b 1 of the only 1s that can beat her
Skia Asteri1 votesShe is bad as a blind pick top laner because her bad match ups are really bad, and they encompass nearly all the match ups.
She does work very well as a jungler though, as long as you find a way to get the money for the items she needs.
http://champion.gg/champion/Shyvana/Jungle http://champion.gg/champion/Shyvana/Top