Talk:Shyvana/@comment-173.189.9.138-20120109071111/@comment-88.186.19.90-20120109163425

First of all don't take sunfire cape, it's wasted on her. You already have a fully functional built-in cape in the form of Burnout that even scales with AD, why would you even bother to buy another one? Buy a bloodthirster instead; you need some sustain, the damage is very welcome that early and scales with your Q, W and E (E reduces enemy armor). Also, you don't benefit from spellvamp on sunfire damage, while you do on Burnout, so building AD synergises better with your hextech gunblade.

Mercury's treads are better than anything else in most cases. Get berseker greaves if you don't need tenacity or sorcs boots to really start dealing early game. Swiftness or Ionian aren't bad either, but it doesn't fully synergise with how you want to build her. Also, the extra magic resistance from merc's treads is enough if you don't want to go tanky.

It seems you are going in the more AP direction with this build, and that's fine, but you have almost no attack speed and no Cooldown reduction, meaning that you are relying on your abilities to do burst damage, which isn't efficient.

I would suggest getting malady, it will let you deal a lot of damage thanks to the magic reduction, will improve your sustain and synergise well with the rest of the team, if you do however, you will have to choose between using twin bite before or after flame breath, depending on how much MR opponents have and AP your team has.

If you don't like it then I would suggest Guinsoo's Rageblade, it will really boost your AS and AP after a twin bite in dragon form and will let you deal a maximum of damage with flame breath once you have the 8 stacks (and the extra AD doens't hurt), and keeping the 8 stacks constantly isn't that hard since you are completely manaless.

Your items would be: boots, Rylai's, Hextech revolver, Guinsoos/malady, Bloodthirster (not in order). You'll probably end up needing armor, you might want to go for the trinity (which is almost perfect for her). In that case build it after your boots as your 3rd item, it will make you much stronger mid game an will really let you storm the field.