User blog comment:Akali/Did you hear about the Dragon and her 2nd Anniversary?/@comment-5077844-20131101162234/@comment-4652200-20131101170306

They plan to change the meta before season 4 by overhauling supports, junglers and "all" melee AD champions, with rework being the first of many. My understanding is that means making melee AD as viable carries as marksmen, so if anything they (I hope) will make Shyvana more awesome.

More on topic: I "fell in love" with Shyvana on PBE and bought her on release day and she is one of the few champions I was (really) good with from game 1.