Talk:Shyvana/@comment-9894095-20130709135459

I am trying to develop a top lane guide for our lovely dragon lady, and before anyone starts ragging on me, it had been working extremely well bar a few problematic champions and weird situations.

Perhaps I should say one champion in particular. Zac top lane. I can fight him fairly well for a bit, but I find myself wasting a lot of time having to walk over his blobs to prevent his sustain. If I don't do this, he just out sustains me and whittles me down. If I do do this, then I have to spend time Not attacking him while fighting, sometimes causing my burnout to end early and giving him time to get cooldowns up and spawn more blobs. It is an evil cycle.

I tend to try and rush lifesteal and MR as quickly as possible to build up my own sustain to counter him, but I can't seem to do it quickly enough to prevent him from becoming a problem.

I have a feeling that I am not using the optimal runes/masteries/starting items to really shut him down early game, but I am not really sure what to do differently.

Masteries: 9/21/0

Runes: Hybrid pen marks, armor yellows, MR/lvl blues, Lifesteal Quints (worth the most gold/stat out of all the quints and I like the early sustain).

Starting items: 1-2 Rejuv Beads + wards and Pots.

I'm wondering if I should go for a more agressive start and setup to try and put him on the defensive early... But I'm unsure if that would work... Any advice? And please don't just say "Don't play Shy top Hurr Hurr". I play her jungle too, but I like her top as well.