Talk:Shyvana/@comment-16180701-20130822024933/@comment-16180701-20130822064201

power clearing is one thing Shyvana excels at but it is only one thing she excels at. She is a great duelist with AoE damage even before 6. It's what makes her, along with her shred and tankiness and mobility and waveclear and ability to carry an exhaust and not be punished for it, one of the best counter gankers in the game. She can't force people to stay, but she can walk into an engagement and win. As long as you are able to predict the movements of other junglers and show up when they do, which isn't too hard really jungle patterns are fairly predictable and even one ward helps immensly, you can win 2v2 and 3v3 engagements very easily with Shy.

So what does she have over those champs you listed, well, she wins engagements. If you use that to your advantage you win.

J4 is very squishy compared to her and will lose any duel even if he's ahead by a fair amount. Phage and FM are horrible on shyv, if you need a slow get Randuins. My win ratio went from 35% to 55% when I stopped using FM it's too expensive and the slow doesn't work well enough randuins in every way is a better investment. Locket and merc treads are core. Randuins, and Zeke's and even Thornmail are situational items.

The game at the end of the day is about winning. You have to play to a champions strenght and weaknesses. Shyvana wins engagements. She out tanks and out damages any other jungle choice you put on the table. So force engagements and you win. This takes foresight, planning and timing. But the result is very hard to counter. She also does have some good gank potential with her ultimate. If you do it just right, it immobilizes a person for about 2 seconds. And her big form in dragon along with increased movement speed makes her very good at being an object that has to constantly be ran around (much like you could do in starcraft or warcraft etc). On top of that she's one of the few champs who can lane gank from behind a turret.

It's just kind of sad to me that she is one of the best duelests and skirmish champions in the game and yet people can't find a use for her. It's called counterganking.