Corn Wrote:You essentially wasted a whooping 1075 gold on the wasted passives. That's about half of the 2775 of the Frozen Heart. Now let's see what you could get otherwise...

Thornmail (2000 gold for the same amount of armor, and a rebound. This already probably melts the AD carries like butter, if they're idiots and focus you, which apparently they are since apparently focus you even if you have a Randuin's and a Frozen Heart).

2 Sapphire Crystals: 200 mana each, 400 gold. (heck if it's possible, you could buy another half of a mana crystal and still have 225 gold left for wards and crap, and that'll equal the Frozen Heart in terms of MP).

Should've gone with a Thornmail, mate, and then a Banshee's Veil right after (for those 1-2 AP carries, the MP, the HP, and the passive). Thornmail would have destroyed them.

Average Gatsby Wrote:For this mechanics preview, we wanted to focus less on the individual abilities of our upcoming champion and talk about the skillset and character flow of Shyvana, the Half Dragon, as a whole.

Shyvana is a melee champion that heavily rewards aggression. She does so by utilizing a system called Dragon’s Blood, a resource that accrues anytime Shyvana lands an auto-attack. Once her Dragon’s Blood is full, she can unleash it to transform into a dragon, giving her substantial buffs, ability enhancements and some upfront damage. While in dragon form, Shyvana’s Dragon’s Blood is slowly consumed, though she can continue auto-attacking to extend the duration of the Dragon Form and maximize her damage output with each use.

It’s also worth mentioning that Shyvana’s ultimate has no cooldown, but can only be used when her reserve of Dragon’s Blood is full. The right set of circumstances can allow a skilled player to transform much more often than other would otherwise be possible.

In addition, all of Shyvana’s abilities also have benefits that trigger when she auto-attacks. This is to differentiate her from the “melee caster” paradigm embodied by some other characters, making her play somewhere between an Attack Damage carry and a fighter.

Simply put, Shyvana is for players who like any of the following:

* Offensive, aggressive playstyles
* Melee carries or fighters
* The idea of being a super-rad dragon


We think this wantonly aggressive playstyle is something we haven’t seen previously on the Fields of Justice. It’s an exciting opportunity for players to experience a new way to play League of Legends.

shouri Wrote:You need to read a bit more.

I already had a thornmail. There were ZERO AP carries. Cho was their tank... he posed almost no threat.
They were 4 AD +Cho.


Before getting the 2nd FH I had:

Tear, Sorcs, FH, Thornmail.


I'm not saying FH was the best choice for a 5th item. But against 4 AD carries, the main threat of which had a LW, I needed more armor... I decided to get more mana while I was at it. The wasted gold meant nothing... I had TONS to spare.

Aynia Wrote:I'd advise against sorcs in general on ryze. Mercs is pretty much better in every situation.

Corn Wrote:Then he would have essentially only the magic penetration he gets from runes, though.

I'm still facepalming at how I missed the mention of Thornmail at least 3 times. I'm being ridiculously rude to shouri in at least the last 100 posts. Sorry.

Quote:Simply put, Shyvana is for players who like any of the following:

* Offensive, aggressive playstyles
* Melee carries or fighters
* The idea of being a super-rad dragon

Dark Link Wrote:I wonder why this was put up, HMMM!?

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