Talk:Shyvana/@comment-5670872-20140117132802/@comment-21338908-20140122010249

In this current tanky top meta, with most top laners being Mundo, Renekton and Shyvana, Shyvana should be played more as a tank, unless your team already has a jungle tank and maybe a taric/leona support. In which case you should pick an assasin such as kha'zix. In my opinion, Shyvana needs to be a tank, since if you ult into the middle of the enemy team with your w and spamming e and q, if you are squishy, you will melt immediately. Shyvana's kit of sustained damage with w and e procs relies more on AS and tank to sustain that damage without dying as well as on hits to go with her q. Personally, my build would be sunfire for the extra burn with w, bork for AS and synergy with e and q as well as the MS from the active. Then I go straight tank, spirit visage for AP heavy teams, Randuins, Trinity force if you have tons of gold, and maybe a Wits end if you are fed. Thats my personal opinion and I am in no case telling you what to do.

TL;DR

Shyvana is a sustained damage bruiser who needs tank stats to not die when flying into the enemy team, build sunfire, bork, spirit visage, randuins, Trinity/Wit's end if you are fed. Also, health=/= tank, you need resistances as well so FM as the sole tank item would not work. Of course, this is what I think and if you think you have a better build, by all means use what you like, not what I tell you to.