Talk:Shyvana/@comment-4834593-20140501052532/@comment-5955640-20140501060652

Aww man! I wish I had my friend around who mained her top and pretty much rules top lane regardless of the opponent.

He would give you the top to bottom. He isn't here though but I'll try to remember what he does when he plays and give you the basic jist of what he does.

He farms. The general idea is that you will be too tanky to kill. Between your sustain, your manaless state, and your fairly decent dueling power you get to resist bullying. The more infrequent it is the better you can manage it. So you just hit them with Flame Breath when you feel like it. When they get ontop of you use burnout and Twin Bite and Burnout in paticular is the answer to any situation where the enemy actually hurt you as it makes for a rather strong mobility boost.

If you are so inclined, once they are low you can use Dragon Form for an easy kill. It's pretty difficult to outduel the Dragon form without having massive sustain and completely shutting down counter attack because it isn't DPS that wins fights it's just the magic damage.

Yeah. The magic damage. She looks like she scales from AD and AP and she does but she deals magic damage. Twin Bite is the only skill that deals physical damage and scales from physical damage. With that in mind. Build AD. If memory serves. Ravenous Hydra and Blade of the Ruined King. You may just want one of them but you can get both. Those will be the only damage items you'll need. After that just tank.

My friend will split push as Shyvana. Just completely push the top lane before roaming. Others do this too but not as well. He always split pushes though, it doesn't matter who he is playing as. But he's most effective when doing it as Shyvana who can push turrets pretty fairly. When people start getting on his case and trying to pin him down he dragon's out with burnout and usually escapes. This also works to an extent when in lane and the jungler comes to gank.

It's sort of like when you play Tank Aatrox. You do too much damage to be ignored but you can't be killed or focused on either. Actually that's not unlike Mundo when he's doing well and doesn't get his masteries nerfed.