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Boots of 

Speed

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GAME START

Boots of 

Speed

Bilgewater

Cutlass

Giant's Belt

EARLY GAME

Mercury'sTreads

Frozen Mallet Blade of theRuined King

MID GAME

Blade of theRuined King

RavenousHydra

TheBloodthirster

The BlackCleaver

Last Whisper

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Season 3 Changes

Introduction

Runes

Masteries

Skill Introduction and Sequence

Items

Summoner Spells

Gameplay Tactics

Extras

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Introduction

This build deviates considerably from other guides I've seen for Shyvana. It is tried and true, as I've played

Shyvana several hundred games. As a disruptor tank she is somewhat underrated as her damage doesn't scale into

late game. As a full DPS, she just doesn't have the survivability she needs to be a key player in team fights. This

build gives her some beef without sacrificing the damage she needs to get fed and carry the game. Also, it's worth

noting that I only specified 4 (or 5 if you include wriggle's) end game items. Once these four are purchased,

Shyvana is very versatile as she has a good deal of survivability built into her character from the combination of the

movement speed of Burnout  and the armor/magic resist, and jump from Dragon's Descent

It is worth noting that this guide is primarily a solo top guide. If you guys decide you like this guide, I'd be more

than happy to provide a jungle guide. Just send me some feedback!

Overall Summary

PROS

She's a dragon, of course

Does good damage early, mid, and late game and can easily bully a lane

Very fast jungler

Built in survivability with passive armor and magic resist

Great ability to pursue

Turning into a dragon is incredibly fun and you need to try it :)

CONS

No built in crowd control

Weak ganks if jungling

Takes some getting used to

Runes

RUNES

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Damage

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Greater Seal of Armor

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Greater Glyph of Magic

Resist

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Greater Quintessence of 

Movement Speed

3

I don't seem to see Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed  very often on champion guides but I feel like

they're really underrated. If you have all three of them, the boost totals a 4.5% bonus, which assuming a fighter

like Shyvana has approximately 400 movement speed with tier 2 boots, amounts to an almost 20 movement

speed bonus. This, coupled with   Burnout  means that Shyvana has a huge speed boost over her opponent. Speed

is Shyvana's weapon early, more so than any other champion I've played. Burnout  is her early game damage

tool, and since it only affects enemies just outside of melee range, it is pivotal that your enemy not be able to

outrun you.

I can't tell you how many kills I've gotten by just letting a level 1 enemy stand in Burnout, thinking they're

winning because they have high burst. Then they decide to run away, but you're at almost 500 movement speed if 

you have Boots of Speed, and 3 Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed.

The other runes, Greater Seal of Armor  and Greater Glyph of Magic Resist  give her the added tankiness any

melee fighter needs. With these runes, she starts the game with 12 addition magic resist and 14 bonus armor

which amounts to almost doubling her percent damage reduction.

I put the Greater Mark of Attack Damage  in there to give her attacks a little extra oomph at the beginning of 

the game. I'm a fan of flat runes rather than per level ones because I feel like runes don't help you as much in the

end as they do in the beginning. Plus, if you get fed at the beginning, who needs runes, amirite? These attack

damage marks can be replaced with Greater Mark of Magic Resist  or Greater Mark of Armor. But be

cautioned, since they're marks and not glyphs or seals they won't be as effective as those types of runes would be

for armor and magic resist.

Masteries

I feel like most of these choices are pretty standard on a tanky fighter. I also take a point in Destruction , as

Shyvana is an excellent pusher and this helps her snag her turrets quicker. It can be reallocated to something else

in the offensive tree, such as Sorcery for additional cooldown reduction.

Skill Introduction and Sequence

(PASSIVE)  Your basic attacks and your ultimate enhance each of your abilities

(Q)  Your next basic attack will strike twice

(W)  Shyvana gains movement speed and an small radius area of effect which surrounds her

(E)  Shyvana projects a ball of fire which does magic damage and reduces the target's armor

(R)  Shyvana turns into a dragon and leaps to a target location, knocking enemies back and dealing

magic damage

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As I mentioned earlier,   Burnout  is your most important ability early. While Flame Breath  technically has the

best damage scaling of your abilities, it is used more for it's armor penetration and bonus on-hit damage. Twin

Bite  scales (no pun intended, she is a dragon after all :D) poorly as an ability, only really shining when you have the

attack damage and on-hit effects necessary to make it really hurt. That leaves us with Burnout, and I'll never

get tired of saying it. It is your bread and butter. It takes Shyvana from an underpowered, beefy fighter to a ball of 

fire that consumes everything in its path.

Since it was already discussed that the main use of Flame Breath  is utility, Twin Bite is the next to max out.

This ability allows Shyvana to hit twice on her next attack, which is especially useful because the game treats it like

2 basic attacks. This means that on-hits will proc twice instead of once on the target. If you noticed, this build

contains a Blade of the Ruined King, and now you see why it's so powerful. Twin bite also has an interesting

gameplay mechanic which will be discussed a little bit later.

As usual, take your ultimate at levels 6, 11, and 16. In addition to doing decent damage, Dragon's Descent  has

no cooldown and has a great passive. It increases your armor and magic resist while not in the dragon form and

gives you double the bonus while in the dragon form, in addition to access to more powerful abilities. This passive,

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along with Burnout  (whodathunkit?) is the key to Shyvana's ability to dominate a teamfight. Tanky and fast

with an ult that can crowd control the team, how do you bring her down?

Items

Finally the items section!  (I know it's what you all came here to see anyway so don't lie)

Because Shyvana is already fast and tanky, she has a lot of room to play with in her items.

When soloing top, I highly recommend starting with a Doran's Shield. It gives you a little bit more armor,

health, and HP regen. This allows you to stay in lane and harass the heck out of your opponent, as well as commit

to killing them when the opportunity arises. This is probably your best bet the first time you play Shyvana, becauseit gives you a little bit of extra sustain and cushion you need if you're not comfortable playing her yet. You can also

take Boots of Speed  and 3 Health Potion  if you think you can get an early kill (and you can, because I mean,

you're playing a freaking dragon, after all).

I like to rush boots after I recall for the first time because, like I've said a thousand times, being faster than your

enemy is your biggest weapon. Whether you get Mercury's Treads  or Ninja Tabi  is up to you, but I usually

prefer Mercury's Treads  just because later in the game you'll get armor from your Wriggle's Lantern  anyway

and you definitely don't want to be shy on magic resist (Also the crowd control reduction is a life saver).

When you can, I'd recommend taking Furor  as your boot enchantment. Since it gives a huge boost to a champion's

ability to pursue, it helps Shvyana a great deal when combined with Burnout. This is not urgent, but whenever

you're sufficiently far in your build and you have a little extra gold sitting around, pick it up.

Next, it is very important to rush a Phage  because Shyvana lacks any built in crowd control. The slow from

phage along with the health and damage are critical to her early game performance.

This is where your build will start to be game dependent. If you are getting fed or farmed off of minions I tend torush the Frozen Mallet  along with a Vampiric Scepter. It gives harder crowd control than the phage, and

gives you even more health and damage. If you aren't doing so hot, try going for a Wriggle's Lantern  first

instead. It's cheaper and gives you lifesteal, armor and damage. Usually I am somewhere in between and so my

inventory looks like this:

 

The Frozen Mallet  is top priority though, so don't leave your phage unbuilt for too long.

Next you can go with a more Damage Oriented Build, a Tank Build, or a Shredder Build, which is what I've shown

top.

It is of note that each build will look roughly like this before it starts to deviate:

 

We'll start with the Damage Oriented Build:

After the initial build, I would rush a Blade of the Ruined King. The attack speed and lifesteal both make Twin

Bite  available more often and allow Shyvana to heal more. The Ravenous Hydra  grants her additional lifesteal

and adds on to her ever growing list of on-hit effects.

At this point, your inventory should look like this:

 

You now have completed the core build. Other items to consider include:

Warmog's Armor - Gives you a ton of extra health

Bloodthirster - Good damage and the attack speed helps you get off Twin Bite  more often

Black Cleaver - Good anti-armor item which gives a small health boost.

Last Whisper - if you're having trouble getting through an enemy's defenses.

Personally, I would take the following items:

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Summary of build:

PROS

Good damage

Good survivability because of Warmog's Armor

Not prone to be bursted down because of Warmog's Armor  and Maw of Malmortius

CONS

Loses effectiveness as game goes on, particularly after about 45 minutes or so

This build is really only effective against carries. Very little counter-tank ability.

Next, the Full Tank Build:

The Frozen Mallet  and Bilgewater Cutlass  are already a great setup for this build, as they give her the health

foundation she needs to be a good tank as well as some sustain. I would recommend going for a Warmog's

Armor  immediately after you get your Blade of the Ruined King  because building health is the easiest way to get

tanky quickly. After this, you want to stick with the usual "tank" items. Some good suggestions are as follows:

Thornmail - Tons of armor and allows you to reflect damage

Runic Bulwark - With this, you both gain a huge amount of tankiness and serve as a pseudo-support

during teamfights

Guardian Angel - So that when you're down, you're not out

Randuin's Omen - Both the active and passive are great disruption tools

This is what I would typically go with:

 

Summary of Build:

PROS

Incredibly hard to kill

Can move in and out of a teamfight with ease and save your teammates with your Frozen Mallet

slow

You function just like a tank but with more damage

CONS

Very little damage except for at the beginning of the game

Totally reliant on having a carry on your team

Beyond your disruption, you don't have much else to offer the team

And now, my personal favorite, the Shredder Build

This build is effective on tanks and carries alike, and will allow you to deal massive amounts of damage without

giving up much of your durability. You start to do so much damage it just looks more like you're eating the other

team than fighting them. The build requires that you build a The Black Cleaver  very quickly after the Frozen

Mallet  to prevent your attacks from losing their sting. This counters the enemy team spamming armor to try to

counter you. Next, you need to build a Ravenous Hydra  to further increase your damage, lifesteal, and

teamfight presence. While Shyvana is a dragon, her Twin Bite  does AoE damage, and so procs the Ravenous

Hydra's passive, Cleave. Once your build looks like the following:

 

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because all of Shvyana's damage comes from her basic attacks. Even Twin Bite  is just 2 basic attacks that hit

simultaneously, which means that if you basic attack and then Twin Bite, you will stack the The Black

Cleaver  passive 3 times in virtually no time at all, lifestealing the whole time. This, combined with the fact that

your Flame Breath  gives armor penetration, there is very little your opponent can do but hope that his team

shows up very soon.

Because you will do a lot of damage, it is inevitable you will start to become the focus. Combat this by building a

Quicksilver Sash  in your last open item slot. This allows you to break a crowd control lock in a teamfight and stacks

on some extra magic resistance. This can be built into a Mercurial Scimitar  which retains the active of the

Quicksilver Sash  which removes all debuffs from your champion. For your last item, replace your Wriggle's

Lantern  with a Blade of the Ruined King  so you don't sacrifice any lifesteal. Also, the Blade of the Ruined

King's passive does physical damage equal to a percent of current health and so is a great tool late game to deal

with tanks. When you're fully built, it should look something like this:

 

Summary of Build:

PROS  (besides you when you use this build)

Extremely high damage all game

Capable of fighting tanks as well as carries

A great deal of survivability

This build is very hard to counter (percent HP damage, high armor penetration)

You are now both a carry and and a beefy off-tank

CONS

Slightly less survivability than the Full Tank Build

Slightly less burst damage when fighting carries in a 1v1 than the Damage Oriented Build

The SHREDDER BUILD is the one that I recommend that you use.

Summoner Spells

In almost every game, I take:

Ignite - To kill those enemies that you can't catch up to for whatever reason

Flash - If you flash and use Dragon's Descent  together and the enemy is still able to catch you, you

were probably dead anyway.

Other good choices:

Ghost - Speed is your weapon with Shyvana, and so ghost is a great choice.

Exhaust - This will allow you to dominate your lane and help you to gank other lanes later in the game.

Choices that are neither here nor there:

Teleport - With the speed boost from Burnout  you can get around the map quickly already, so unlessyou have a strong attachment to it, I wouldn't recommend it.

Surge - Kind of the same function as Exhaust  but the bonus ability power is wasted on Shyvana

Smite:

When jungling, I do recommend you take Smite  as it speeds up the process a great deal and can help

you get/steal Dragon  or Baron Nashor  later in the game.

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Gameplay Tactics

Now that you know how to build Shyvana, you need to learn how to play her. Shyvana's damage lies in her ability

to not only burst high damage, but sustain that damage output, even in a chase.

Beginning any fight, you should always attempt to hit an enemy with Flame Breath. It gives you 15%

additional armor penetration and does some magic damage. Next, activate Burnout  and close the distance to

your enemy as quickly as possible.

Twin Bite

Twin bite is an empowered basic attack which means that when you use it, it resets your attack timer, allowing

you to basic attack and then use Twin Bite  with no delay. The effect is letting you basic attack something at

max attack speed for those two attacks. This means when attacking an enemy, always basic attack them once

before using Twin Bite  to maximize your damage. These two attacks proc on hit effects a total of 3 times (1 for

the first attack and 2 for Twin Bite) meaning that Blade of the Ruined King  will hit for approximately 12% of 

their maximum health in addition to whatever physical damage you did.

This ability is similar to Jax's Empower  and Talon's Noxian Diplomacy

Burnout

When jungling or farming, always trigger burnout and attack the strongest monsters first, so that Burnout  will

do it's full area of effect damage to all enemies surrounding the strongest one. For example, when going to the

wraith camp, attack only the biggest wraith  until it's dead and Burnout  will likely kill the smaller wraiths

while you're standing there. The same thing is true for the Lizard Elder  .

Flame Breath

  Flame Breath  almost functions as a utility spell because you're going to use it for armor penetration and

checking bushes. Don't be afraid to spam it whenever it's up because Shyvana has no mana.

Dragon's Descent

 Dragon's Descent  can be used in three ways and they are as follows:

Initiation

Nothing is more frightening than a dragon flying toward you when you thought you were just peacefully farming.

It can really catch an enemy off guard and secure you a kill. I don't find myself doing this very much however

because usually Burnout  suffices to get close to your target and you can save your ultimate for a better time

During the Fight

One thing that most people forget is that Dragon's Descent  does considerable damage. Many times, enemies will

forget you have it and you can use it to do that little extra damage to kill them, jump after them, or jump away if 

you're in over your head.

This is in my opinion the best option

Escape

If you get ganked and Burnout  doesn't provide the separation you need, you can always find a nearby wall and

use your ult to escape. This saves you a Flash, and since Dragon's Descent  has no cooldown, what do you

care?

Extras

I'm new to this and this is a new guide, so feel free to make suggestions!

Also, I will be happy to answer any questions relating to Shyvana or this build (or really LoL in general :D), so feel

free to message me anytime.

If this goes well, I'll make a jungle guide for her too! :D

Change Log: (dates given in YY.MM.DD format)

12.07.30 Items - changed Warmog's Armor  in shredder build to Randuin's Omen

12.07.30 Purchase Items - changed Warmog's Armor  to Randuin's Omen

12.08.13 General reformatting

12.12.09 Season 3 changes. Changes to masteries and addition of Blade of the Ruined King

12.12.09 Added DPS Offtank, Full DPS, Full Tank, and Jungler item builds

12.24.09 Changed Shredder Build  to include Ravenous Hydra

13.01.03 Added secondary build which includes Ninja Tabi  and Zephyr

13.07.18 Updated builds for Shvyana's patch 3.9 changes.

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