Shyvana Wild Rift Guide, Build and Strategy

Shyvana is a melee fighter who excels at jungling but can also be played in the lane. Her play style revolves around sticking to a target and destroying its health bar. Also, she turns into a dragon. How cool is that?

How to Play Shyvana

• Make sure to have your Fury stacked before entering a battle
• Twin Bite can be used to deal more damage on turrets
• You can use Burnout to chase or escape from enemies as it provide bonus movement speed
• Use Burnout to clear minion and jungle creeps faster
• Use Flame Breath to poke enemies in the lane
• Use Dragon’s Descent to chase enemies
• You can also use Dragon’s Descent as an escape tool but you should limit this
• Dragon’s Descent can let you pass through walls
• With good positioning you can use Dragon Descent to push enemies away from your allies
• Shyvana is one of the fastest jungler because of her clear speed and mobility

Skills

Passive / Fury of the Dragonborn: Deals 20% more damage to Elemental Drakes and Elder Dragons. Killing a Drake or Dragon permanently empowers Shyvana’s abilities while in Dragon Form.

Skill 1 / Twin Bite: Empowers next attack to strike twice, dealing physical damage. Attacks reduce the cooldown of Twin Bite by 0.5 seconds.

Dragon Form: Strikes in a larger area and applies on hits to all enemies.

Skill 2 / Burnout: Deals magic damage per second to nearby enemies and hastes Shyvana by 30%, decaying over 3 seconds. Attacking extends the duration of Burnout 4 second. Dragon Form: Expands the flames, dealing damage in a larger area.

Skill 3 / Flame Breath: Launches a fireball deals magic damage to enemies hit and scorches them for 5 seconds. Shyvana’s attacks on Scorched enemies deal bonus magic damage equal to 3% of their max health. Dragon Form: The fireball explodes on impact, dealing magic damage in an area and leaving a fire for 4 seconds that deals magic damage and Scorches enemies within it.

Skill 4 / Dragon’s Descent: Passive: Generate 1 Fury per second and 2 Fury per attack. At 100 Fury Shyvana can cast Dragon’s Descent. Shyvana remains in Dragon form until she has consumed all of her Fury. Active: Transform into a Dragon, gaining health and flying to a target location. Enemies along Shyvana’s path take magic damage and are knocked towards her landing point.

Item Build

Trinity Force, Wit’s End, Mercury’s Glory, Blade of the Ruined King, Guardian Angel, Dead Man’s Plate

Runes

• Conqueror – Gain stacks of Adaptive Force when hitting a champion with separate attacks or abilities. When fully stacked, deal bonus adaptive damage to champions.
• Brutal – Gain 7 AD and 2% Armor Penetration, or 14 AP and 2% magic penetration.
• Hunter Titan – Gain 20 max health. Unique champion takedowns grant 20 max health and 4% tenacity.
• Pathfinder – Gain 9 % movement speed in brush, jungle and river when out of control.

Spells

• Smite
• Flash

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