Talk:Shyvana/@comment-24.241.200.177-20111206043216/@comment-88.186.19.90-20111207131829

Shyvana has an aggressive playstyle, and because of her manaless mechanics, you can harass the opponent withought having to back because you are OOM.

E is the best tool you have, dealing damage and has a soft counter to retaliation, because you deal extra damage with autoattacks while the debuff is on. Put a point in it at level 1 or 2 and keep using it on your opponent over and over

W is also a good denial tool, if the opponent is a melee autoattacker just stand next to him and last hit minions, forcing him to either chase you and fail because of your speed boost (get autoattacked once and run in circles around the minions) or to back off and waste farming. Take care, as this tends to push your lane and you need to wait for the cooldown before being safe from ganks. Maxing W relatively early (I actually tend to max it first on solotop along with Q) and getting merc treads will make you very hard to gank. Also remember at higher levels that you are pretty tanky, and if the opponent has equal health to you, turning around and clawing their face can get you a kill on a wounded opponent before moving back to the safety of your tower.

Her only real downside is her lack of sustains, you'll find yourself taking warmog, lifesteal early on or a big amount of pots of you'll be backing too much.