Talk:Shyvana/@comment-24049414-20140107084440/@comment-14718262-20140113111611

As a jungler, she's an extremely fast jungle-farmer and lane pusher. Her gank is mediocre at best, so she can only excel if either her team has lots of reliable cc, or if the team can survive without Shyvana's help, letting her farm up for the late game.

As a top, ever since her E's buff (goes through enemies and, when debuffed, basic attacks deal additional 2% max health), her trade capability went up reasonably. The fact that she is a Hybrid damage dealer is a big plus at top lane, because it is more expensive to itemize against. But the buff to E isn't exactly the reason why Shyvana is suddenly so popular as a solo top (as much as it's a HUGE buff, it's still insignificant at top lane against traditional solo-top laners). It's just that the new meta is leaning over heavy split-pushing, and Shyvana is one damn good split pusher, equipped with high sustained mobility to blaze through the map, spammable Q (thanks to cd reduction per hit) that can bulldoze a turret, and AOE skill sets (W and E) that can easily melt through minions.

To be honest, I also started playing some games with Shyvana top after she got so popular, to see if she is really AS good as what some people claim (won a few, lost a few). My opinion regarding why Shyvana is suddenly considered OP: exaggeration. Solo top Shyvana was probably one of the lowest tier, and people considered her as underwhelming and not so viable at top. But then after some people (pro streamers) discovered how to actually utilize Shyvana's kit correctly to win some games, Shyvana became viable ALL OF A SUDDEN. The fact that she was underpowered one day and suddenly viable the other day, people are obviously going to think Shyvana is goddam op because of the gap between Shyvana's viability. They'll soon come to their senses.