The Shyvanna rework comes to League of Legends next week, and the visual game update (VGU) should make the Demacian champion feel much better to play when it releases on LoL Patch 26.6.
Riot Games is finally releasing the highly anticipated update to the top laner/jungler, which was originally released back in 2011. The VGU will give Shyvana brand new abilities and upgrade her character model and skins.
The rework has been playable on the LoL Public Beta Environment (PBE) for a little while now, and players have discovered a small, unspoken quality-of-life update to Shyvana’s kit, which will make her feel significantly better to play.
LoL Shyvana VGU Quality of Life Upgrade
The newly reworked Shyvana will still feel very familiar to old mains of the half-dragon, especially as she is a manaless champion who instead generates Fury stacks. At maximum Fury, Shyvana will still turn into a dragon and gain increased health and enhancements to her abilities.
Previously, unlike some other champions with non-mana resources, this Fury resource was only generated while Shyvana was alive.
This meant that if a Shyvana player died during an important fight and then needed to defend their base, they would respawn with zero Fury and wouldn’t have long enough to stack it for their crucial ultimate.
Riot Games has fixed this with the new update, allowing the champion to passively generate Fury at all times, even while dead. Shyvana is a champion who relies heavily on her ultimate, so being able to use it sooner after respawn will mean she won’t be automatically useless when defending her team’s Nexus.
To compensate for this, the Fury regeneration will be somewhat slower for the reworked version.
Shyvana’s Reworked LoL Abilities
Passive – Scalemail
Shyvana generates stacks of Scalemail by scoring takedowns (kills and assists). Large monsters and large minions grant one stack, while enemy champions and epic monsters grant three stacks.
Shyvana gains 0.4 bonus armor and 0.4 magic resist for each stack.
Q – Emberstrike
Passively, Shyvana’s autoattacks deal bonus magic damage. When activated, Emberstrike empowers her next autoattack to have increased range and deal damage in a cone. After activating the first time, Emberstrike can quickly be recast a second time soon after.
Shyvana’s basic attacks reduce the remaining cooldown of this ability.
When in her Dragon Form, Emberstrike gets an additional recast, which also deals true damage.
W – Inferno Aegis
Shyvana gains a shield for 2.5 seconds, which gets 30% stronger for every nearby enemy champion. She also gains bonus movement speed while facing visible opponents.
The shield detonates once it expires or the ability is recast to deal AoE damage.
In Dragon Form, Shyvana also gets a substantial heal if the detonation hits an enemy champion.
E – Molten Burst
Shyvana launches a fireball that deals magic damage and explodes at maximum range or when it hits an enemy champion.
In Dragon Form, this projectile is faster, wider, penetrates enemy champions to hit multiple targets, deals 25% increased damage, and leaves a damaging effect on the ground for two seconds.
R – Dragon’s Descent
Passively, Shyvana generates Dragon Fury per second while in her Human Form. Her basic attacks and abilities generate another 1.25 Fury for every enemy champion hit per cast — this is increased by 200% in her Dragon Form.
Once Shyvana’s Fury bar is full at 100 Dragon Fury, she can turn into her Dragon Form, flying forward with displacement immunity and dealing damage in a wave that also fears enemies.
In this form, Shyvana gains bonus health, attack range, and size as well as enhancements to all her active abilities. The Dragon Form costs Fury, and once her Fury bar depletes, she returns to her human form.
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And check out all the details about the LEC Spring Split, where the new version of Shyvana will make its esports debut.
