Talk:Shyvana/@comment-10300926-20131106141018/@comment-5955640-20131106190329

Yeah I can answer that question. In not a lot of words. She hurts like a sonofavbitch and is hard to kill and will demand focus.

In more words lets look at her kit while we are all here. First off she doesn't have 0 CC she does in fact have on knockup. They are pushed in the direction she flew in technically but it will function like a knockup or knockback if you were unfortunate enough to be in the way of that.

She is naturally tanky. Her passive has scaling armor and magic resistance that is doubled when she is in dragon form so think about that. Shyvana is tanking for the team. So by late game she gets 3000 health, 100 armor, and 80 magic resistance. She turns into dragon form and that gets doubled (not the health of course but the armor and magic resistance).

You are thinking to yourself "That's not a big deal, you just don't focus her and you'll be fine" YOU WON"T BE FINE look at that kit again. Do you notice a theme with all her spells? Yeah. They are all AOE in dragon form.

Q is an auto attack modifier that strikes twice and applies on hit effects. It is spammable. It scales high and it has a cooldown reduction through just auto attacking.

W is an AOE and despite scaling off AD deals magic damage the thing people buy the least of.

E will deal magic damage and mark them making them viable to take damage that's equal to 2% of their maximum health.

Is it coming together on why Shyvana is getting a strong rise in picks for matches? She's very tanky. Deals damage that is hard to build resistances for. And will probably kill you if you refuse to focus her with her constant barrage of AOE spells.