Talk:Shyvana/@comment-4677525-20120308100402/@comment-3217613-20120308211300

I've actually gone with Shyv on 1/4 or 1/5 of my ranked games, from 1200 elo to 1500.

All I can say she's a high skill cap champion. Simply because you lack CC. To maximize your chances to win you need to know what you can and what you cannot do, and how to properly ward and counterjungle. This requires knowing how to build, how to gank without CC or dash, the enemy jungler route and his jungle times.

Often you're not going to win the game by yourself even if you get fed, but you can completely destroy the enemy jungler if you're playing well and your team helps you doing so. I've stolen wraiths + red at lvl on so many games.

Also, as it has been said, she's an exceptional duelist, so you can basically counterjungle without having anything to fear, you can beat all junglers (more or less easily) at early game stages. When you reach lvl 3 your burst becomes insane, and you still deal high amounts of sustained dps for the following seconds.

Getting exhaust besides smite compensates the lack of a CC early. It's a really good spell to have, much more worth the slot than flash or any other summoner spell.