Talk:Shyvana/@comment-87.194.212.104-20120112112737

To people who aren't sure how to play Shyvana, there are two things you need to remember:

Shyvana is team dependent, and communicated well with she's great to have on a team. Whether she's jungling or top laning, she has high mobility and she's good at capturing key objectives quickly. Shyvana also needs farm, which she's good at. Mid game, I strongly suggest you find a lane for yourself and keep farming; you scale beautifully with AS and typical tanky DPS items, which you will need for team fights later where you are much more important. You are not a hard carry sleeper farm champ like Nasus is, but you do scale into late game better than a lot of bruisers do.

When jungling, only go in for a gank if your lanes have reliable CC (you shouldn't choose Shyvana anyway if you have, say, GP top/Ezreal+Soraka bot). If ganking is proving difficult, don't push it. Keep jungling and counterjungling.

When top laning, I would suggest you take two of ghost/exhaust/teleport/flash, although I would suggest ghost so you can 'stick' to your opponent better. Remember, your Burnout will last for 9 seconds if you've stuck to your target and they can't get away. Unless you're laning against a caster, I strongly suggest cloth + 5 pots or a Doran's shield. Don't expect to have an easy time in top lane. Many champions will outsustain you. Sometimes I prefer to farm safely with E/Q, then when I hit level 6 I push top lane to their tower hard. Doing this will force them to farm under their tower (harder to CS) and will also allow you to roam the map a bit; your mobility is great post-level 6, and you might even get a chance to intercept the enemy jungler while top lane is pushed.