Shyvana: Power Farm And The Game Plays Itself!

In this solo commentary video Perry Norman plays Shyvana in a Masters+ ranked match with the goal of reaching Challenger. He explains why Shyvana is a strong pick against early‑game weak champions, focusing on her passive that grants permanent armor and magic resist per camp kill, which creates infinite scaling when combined with HP‑based items. Perry outlines a power‑farming strategy that prioritizes synchronized jungle camps, early dragon control, and opportunistic invades. He walks through itemization choices—Triforce into Sundered Sky or Shojin, Death's Dance, Mejai's Soulstealer—and discusses when to switch to bruiser versus AP items. Throughout the game he narrates macro decisions (camp timing, smite usage, recall timing, dragon and herald contests), micro moments (diving, dodging skillshots, using Shyvana's ultimate for survivability), and personal reflections about improving to Challenger and upcoming competition in Korea. The video concludes with a recap of the repeatable farm‑first playstyle and a typical YouTube sign‑off.
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Hey guys, it's Perry. Today we're playing some Shyvana in a Masters+ elo game. We're trying to get to Challenger. Why Shyvana this game? They picked a lot of champions that are weak in the early game. And so I thought to myself, well, if they're going to pick weak-ass champions, I might as well play a giga scaling champ. So I had the luxury to pick a little bit later and notice how I'm starting my Raptor camp as well. The intention is to just power farm super duper hard and get myself really far ahead in this game. That's exactly what I'm planning to do. Hey guys, it's Perkz. That's exactly what I will do. And so I don't recommend Shyvana in Masters+. In lower elos, she's giga broken. So I'll show you guys why. The main thing about this champion that makes her so OP is her passive. Her passive gives her 0.3 armor and MR every single time she kills a camp because she gets her one scale mail. And what that means for her is she has infinite scaling and she uses HP items very well. So Triforce into Sundered Sky or Triforce into Shojin even is going to be super duper powerful on this champion. Okay, so she scales nicely. She uses her items nicely, and her gameplay is very, very, very hard to deal with if the enemies are not perfectly prepared to deal with her. And so she just has so many reasons why she's difficult to handle. She scales, she hurts, and she has a fear. She has CC, she has slows. She's like— she does true damage at some point with her ulti. And so she's just a problem all around. She clears fast too in the early game. Everything about her is great. I'm going to be in Korea soon. It's going to be an absolute banger being able to play against Canyon and the GOAT himself, Faker. It's going to be an absolute blast. And so I will be as locked in as I possibly can be on playing better and better and better League. My goal is to get my gameplay to a point where I'm very confident that I can just completely 1v9 and do really good and not completely int. And so let's watch the Zed here. And as I'm hitting this, let's see where the Zed's walking. The Zed looks like he's walking towards the top side. And so what I want to do is I want to smite this. I want to come hog here. And I want to go fight this guy a bit here. I have red buff slow, so I think I should be able to get him. Red buff, red buff, red buff. Beautiful. And instead of going for 2 crabs here— and that ward was awful— instead of going for 2 crabs here, I'm going to go for his Kruggies because he was level 3 when he ganked mid lane at 20 CS. Which means that his Kruggies are up. So let's take his Kruggies. We can maybe even dive their top laner. Like, that's how fucked their game could be here. Okay, can't dive him. That's fine. It was a dive attempt. I wasn't— oh wait, my recall is not— my recall got canceled. It was a dive attempt. I probably should have just played to recall right away. But nonetheless, it is okay. Let's buy this. I think I'm gonna assume that my Raptor camp is probably gone, but I want to go defend my Krug camp at the very least here. Okay, she traded a kill. My Poppy is not defending my camp with me here, unfortunately, which is fine. Zed has 25 CS. So I don't know if that means he actually took my camp, and if he did, then I'll go straight to his Raptor camp. So he didn't. So I am so fucking fed here this game. I got his topside camps. Whether or not the dive worked or not, it doesn't really matter. We have so much of a lead right now. This game is so fucking easy, actually. Holy shit. Let's take this and let's go invade his top camps. And we're gonna, we're gonna 50/50 the top, uh, the top Raptor camp while Zed clears all the way up. Oh, I'm dead. And if I get it, I get level 6, and let's fuck this guy up. If I don't get it, then it's just minus some tempo, which is fine. My mid laner should have the wave in though. Morgana is level 6, which can be a bit annoying to play into, but nonetheless, we should be able to hit this here, hit the Scryers. There it is. That is— Okay, I didn't get my level 6 there. Oh, that's really sad. The Morgana flash ulted, but my Tristana should be able to work a bit here, right? The good thing is we have Tristana in the mid lane, and if Morgana is gonna play like that, it should be favored for us because Tristana was able to just auto, auto, auto, auto, auto the entire time. And so I was confident there that even if I miss, I don't get my level 6, my Tristana is gonna be able to 1v9 for us there. Also, something to think about, pet deals more damage when you have more armor and MR. And so I didn't even realize, but like Shyvana actually clears so much faster as well because quite literally her— the pet will deal so much more damage. Like, read this real quick with me. It deals 76, and then there's the little plus symbol with like all the little stats. And so that's what makes this shit even more strong than just the standard, um— hold on, I need to go help this guy here. I don't necessarily want to ult to save you. Uh, if Zed is coming, I will ulti if I need to. Okay, okay, I should be completely fine here. If I need HP, I can always ult. Okay. Let's see if the Zed facechecks me or not here. Instinct begs me to slay. Okay. I don't know where Morgana is. Can just ult away though. I have to just— I have to ult to live here because unfortunately the Morgana came, but Morgana's gonna lose a full mid wave for this shit. This shit's just not worth it for Morgana. I still got the top crab too. The main reason why I was interested in doing that is maybe Zed would facecheck me, get himself killed. But yeah, this is the fuck— this is the most fucked up part about this entire sequence, is my bot lane, uh, ends up dying from that. But she— he has TP, so it is what it is. Okay, he's losing his mind a little bit. He's getting kind of mad about the shit that's happening this game. They just keep scaling. We just keep farming for ourselves. We have a lot of CS right now. My Tristana is killing it. We have a hard-winning mid laner. We're gonna do the Krugs first, then we can go for the red buff after. Or we can also just recall, go to the Grubs. I think I'll just take the red buff here. The reason why you want to skip the red a second ago is so you can synchronize your camps. What do you mean by synchronize your camps? Your Raptors and your Krugs spawn at the same time. Uh, it's better than desyncing them. Because they have— they both have shorter spawn timers. Okay, so the guy just cleared that, so he's clearing up right now, which also gives us the window of opportunity to maybe play for this Drake. The reason why I'm not too opposed to it is because their Sion is dead. We see the Zed clearing up towards the top side right now. And so if I play for this with my mid lane control, my bot lane control, early Dragons on Shyvana are always still great. It's still very nice for the game. Ocean Dragon is also the most Broken dragon in the game by far. Just food for thought. Uh, the first— most broken first dragon. Why is that the case? Because your laners just get free 2% missing health every 5 seconds, like just for free. And so they're going to be able to trade and just regenerate HP for free, especially when people are low. It's very helpful. And so that's why it's the most broken, uh, objective in the, in the early game. Okay. Okay, but if they go for me here, well then we will get 2 kills here and I'll go for the dragon after. And that's fine. Like ultimately that is all very good stuff for us. The reason why I'm hitting my camps first is because I, again, I am playing for my resources, my economy. What makes me the most fed in the game. And killing my camps this much faster is really nice. And then I should still be able to play for the grubs nonetheless. Some could argue that why not use the dragon form to do the grubs? Uh, it's, it's like you're still gonna deal plenty of damage on the grubs with your Qs because your Qs are still AoE. And so it doesn't actually change your damage output by too much. So that's why it doesn't really matter. Like, as you guys can see, like, look, this thing is just getting completely melted. Beautiful. We get all of those there. Let's clear down towards the bot side. Zed is bot lane. It's completely fine. Zed was clearing bot to top, right? So he has no bot camps. I should have pinged my bot lane at least 5 times there. Uh, I didn't ping a single time, and so that's my bad. Still, I'm up so much juice right now. I am so fed. If the enemy bot lane overstep, at all here, I could definitely look to kill them. But they won't, they're gonna recall. Okay, that's fine. Let's just take our camps and let's hit our recall too, and then we can go to the top side afterwards. Might be able to play for his Krug camp. So it's recall. Do we have any boot preference here? Probably, uh, I will say just skip the boots for now, honestly, because if that Morgana is focusing me, then I really want Merc treads, but then Morgana. Yeah, okay, that's pretty fucked up. What? The guy died there. Holy fucking shit. What the fuck is that guy's? What that was that guy's W there, huh? Okay, well, you can't stop me from taking your shit, Zed. No matter how much you beg your Morgana to help you. That shit's mine. You know what, this shit might be mine too. Zed is— or Sion is full HP. Oh my God. If I dodge that, if I dodge that, holy fuck. How funny is it? I get this guy's Raptors, Krugs. My camps aren't respawned yet, so it's completely fine. But like that, if I'm Zed there, I'm— my mouth is just like— also, if I just dodge the Morgana Q by trying to kite down, like use the move speed from my pet and kite immediately down, I probably can dodge that shit. But anyway. That was fucking crazy. Dude, it's machine gun, machine gun fucking, uh, Tristana. Oh, there, there he is. Okay, this guy's dead as fuck. WWR. Whoa, whoa, whoa, is that going for my Raptor camp? That'd be insane. We want to clear down towards the bot side as fast as we can though. Okay, Zed is not clearing his camps, which is really bad for him. Reason why is I might have an opportunity to potentially invade his bot camps or re-invade his topside camps. I think the dragon stacking is a little bit stronger of a play, I would say. So let's play for this and then take the dragon. We have 4 yordles on our team. Okay, it's actually just food for thought. We have 4 yordles. That guy should die too there. Beautiful. I don't necessarily need to just kill that That Twitch there because my teammates probably have him after I CC him. So I want to kill that Lulu, kill every— kill everything essentially. Okay, so I'll just one-shot this. I kind of want to lose my form for more form uptime, but it's fine. Let's just, let's just finish this as fast as we can, recoup our tempo, buy a Shojin, go for the Herald. Are we going Merc Shreds? I'll say fuck it, let's just dodge some spells and then we're gonna go for a Death's Dance. As well. Okay, okay, we're gonna flash too. Beautiful. These guys are winning from the top side. This game is completely, completely fucked for them right now. They can't do shit. You can sweep like one time here early because you, you're not gonna use your Herald for a while. And so that means you have no trinket for a little bit. And so you can just use your sweeper there. I've been trying to get into the habit of doing that. It's just an extra little min-max. Okay, let's keep farming down here. Let's go for the bot side camps. Again, we have 10 CS per minute. Like, we're just clearing our camps on spawn over and over and over again. And this game is just getting too hard for them to handle. Okay, CC'd for 10 years. Oh fuck, that homie is there too. Sniped! Fade away, fade away! But you said you're gonna dodge him, bro. That came from fog of war, man. Coming, coming some slack. That shit came from a from from fog. I couldn't even see that shit. I couldn't even dodge that shit if I wanted to. It just came from the middle fucking nowhere. Snipe! Not enough damage. Shyvana's E does way less damage nowadays. That's why I should have bought a Dark Seal this game with how fed I'm getting. Let's recall here. We can go for that Dark Seal at this point. It doesn't hurt. It's a bit late, but it's still fine. My Poppy needs to get the fuck out of there. That's a dangerous position to be in, bro. Clear down towards the bot side, play for this dragon. Just a very consistent game. Go for a Death's Dance this game. I think I'm just too tanky that even if they have— even if they land all their CC on me, I'll be fine. I'm just too tanky. Is AP Shiv viable? If you need it, if you need AP, but I don't recommend it. It's kind of like a last resort IMO. They made AP Shiv so much worse. I know you guys want to fight and shit, and I do too, but I have camps to clear. And this is like— this is how you play Shyvana. You must clear your camps first. They're fucking dead anyway. I can't move. What the hell? Bro, leave me alone, man. Okay, okay, like, am I— I'm kind of forgetting not having Merc Treads this game. I'm kind of regretting having Merc Treads this game, guys. Like, as the game continues, I'm gonna really regret it, I think. Like, right now I'm just like slightly regretting it. I think like if the team fights get harder, I'm gonna really regret it. But for now it's fine. Yo, he does no damage. Yeah, it does like nothing. Chomp! Don't mess with the Shyvana, bro. Chomp! Double kill! Huge. Come on, come on, Tristana, let's go take this. I have 212 CS. This game is just too free. We're gonna ult into Sion ult. The thing is, Merc doesn't work against Sion's knockups anyways, so it doesn't really matter against Sion. It's more just the Morgana. Morgana Q-R into like, I just can't move. It's pretty fun. It's pretty fine. It's like fine. I'm too tanky. Again, look at my stats right now. I haven't bought like any real defensive stats, but I have extra just so much armor MR for free. Just, just, just, just because why not? Okay, because this game is funny right now, we can go for a Mejai's because we have AP ratios. My ult has AP ratio, my E does, my W does for the damage, and even my Q. Has an AP ratio in it as well. So it's not that Shyvana, um, doesn't like AP, it's just that the AP items on Shyvana aren't that great, and she would rather have bruiser items because she's kind of auto attack focused right now. And so she would kind of just prefer to have, um, those types of, uh, items, like bruisery items. Okay, let's go push in top lane all the way, I think. Let's find the Sion. I got you. Rampage. Okay, the thing is I have— no, but yes, nice. My E will slow here. I need to keep my form for as long as I can. See if you guys saw that little sidesteps. Those 2 little sidesteps were very important for me there because it kept this lot— it kept a lot of my form so I could keep chasing. Not that it would have necessarily mattered because my Kennen showed up, but it's just a cool, fun little thing. And not that it matters in this game because the game is just fucking over, but again, fun little thing. Bang, +50. And there's your Shyvana game, guys. It's, it's rinse and repeat. Farm your camps, play, play your— do your part, do your thing. But yeah, nonetheless, guys, I hope you guys enjoyed that Tristana game. A different pace of a different champion for once. It's not the same Viego Trundle bullshit. So if you guys enjoyed that video, leave a like, comment, subscribe. I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace, peace.










