The Hotfix DIDN'T NERF SHYVANA! She's Still OP If You Build Correctly
In this solo‑play tutorial Perry Norman walks viewers through the reworked Shyvana jungle after a recent hotfix nerf, arguing that the champion remains overwhelmingly strong when built and played correctly. He explains his rune setup (move‑speed, tenacity, slow‑resist, with Conqueror or Press‑the‑Attack depending on enemy composition), breaks down each ability—highlighting Q as an auto‑attack reset, W now providing a shield and speed boost, and the nerfed E as the weakest tool—and shows why Shyvana’s damage now hinges on auto‑attacks and Kraken Slayer. He details a step‑by‑step item path (Kraken Slayer, Dark Seal, Dusk & Dawn, Death’s Dance, defensive boots, etc.), emphasizing the massive armor/MR scaling from camp clears that effectively grants free stat gold. Throughout the match he offers live commentary on positioning, farming, and fight decisions, noting common pitfalls (over‑extending, contesting too early) and how to mitigate them. The video concludes that Shyvana is an S++ tier champion—especially for sub‑Emerald players—despite the nerf, and urges viewers to try her for free LP while awaiting potential future balance changes.
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Hey guys, it's Perry Norman. Today we're playing some reworked Shyvana jungle. This champion is absolutely insane. They had to do a hotfix nerf immediately. I'm gonna show you guys how to play the champion, why she's 1v9, how the kit works, and the fundamentals. And the cool thing I'm taking here is a move speed rune and tenacity and slow resist. Given their champions they have, that is by far the best runes for me to take. Sometimes it's good on your champion you're playing, but sometimes like Shyvana specifically, she lacks no damage and she has W for a shield, so she's fine taking these runes. But anyway, you go PTA if you're against squishy champions. You go Conqueror if you're against tankier champions. Your abilities work like this: your Q is pretty similar. It's an auto attack reset, and then your next auto attack will give your next— like, it pretty much auto Q. You can auto again after that next auto attack and then Q again. So you get two refreshes on auto attacks, and that's pretty much it. You just get more damage, and it's AOE as well. Your W is like a little shield, and you get move speed. So instead of last, last season, or like the before, you would get just move speed and like a little bit of damage. Shyvana now gets a nice little shield from her W, which feels great, cuz it's going to make her a little strong, like a lot stronger when it comes to like clearing camps. Not going to be as low, and then she's going to be able to like engage in fights, and then also it does a little bit of damage. So here we are, boom, it's gonna recast, then do some damage. Beautiful auto Q, auto Q. Like, that's the combo, auto Q, auto Q. Your E is like a little mini fireball. Your E is probably the weakest spell on Shyvana now, even though before it was like one of the strongest spells. So just remember that Shyvana's lost damage on her E, and she's very reliant on her auto attacks now, which is why we're gonna go for Kraken Slayer. Like, Kraken Slayer is going to be our first item, guaranteed. And that's kind of what you guys need to think about, is that like Shyvana no longer has strength from her E. All of her damage comes from her Q. So it's a pretty big difference. Now last thing, this is the most broken thing about Shyvana, is her passive just gives her scaling armor and MR just because you kill camps. As long as you kill camps, you'll get scaling armor and MR. This ain't good. This ain't good. I'm dead as fuck. It's good. As long as I survive, I'm happy. Then if Udyr comes up here— okay, I need to like investigate here. I kind of need help. Udyr is just a stronger champion than me this early on. Oh, we're fucking shit on here, I'm going to be honest. This guy couldn't flash. Okay. Oh nice, we, we actually got a freebie here. Beautiful. Okay, nice, the, the guy died, so my game is saved at the very least. My teammates did operations, saved the Shyvana's game. I will carry, I will carry. Oh, they're fucking coming for me. Okay, let's go. Walked all the way to our Krugs. We should be okay here. We have to go all the way safely. See, Aatrox showed up, so we're good now. We can go do this and let's just keep farming. Okay, but anyway guys, like I was saying, Shyvana just gets a fuck ton of stats from her passive. So now Shyvana is just like happy to farm. She doesn't need to prioritize dragons as much as she did in the past. Like, dragons don't actually do anything for you. Okay, so let's buy this, let's buy this, and let's buy Dark Seal. And this kind of gives us the full jack of all trades already. So we get 10 adaptive force immediately and then 5 haste. So this is just like the best items you can ever buy on Shyvana for that adaptive force and haste. Now the Udyr went to the top crab. We saw him earlier. He's gonna be clearing down bot lane as fast as possible. Let's go ahead and take this crab, uh, and then we'll be able to get at least something on the map. Nice. Now we can go back to our camps, keep farming. Auto Q, auto Q. Just get into the, the habit of doing that as fast as possible. The faster you use your Qs, the better. Big reason for that is because you want to get your next Q's like refreshed in cooldown. It doesn't refresh the cooldown unless, unless you like used it. So, uh, you have to like use it in order for it to start refreshing the cooldown. I did ping a few, quite a few times. Oh, he's doing the dragon. Okay, I kind of just have to go into the, the top side and try to take his blue buff here. Actually, you probably can contest here. I don't like this. Never mind, I need to run, I need to run. Okay, okay, okay, okay, I fucked up, I fucked up. I, I thought maybe it was possible, and then I, and then I woke up, and then I realized like, like I'm stupid. Like, I— and then I woke up. Like, that's literally what happened. I, I need to stop contesting stuff on this champion. I have my E up in 2, my E up in 1. Beautiful. Might be able to walk, walk it off. Okay, so again, my game is still saved, but my fucking poor, my poor Nocturne, bro. Okay, he is dead as fuck. I'm not even going to try to save him. My poor fucking Nocturne. Again, this is like— oh fuck, am I dead? No, we're good. That was kind of concerning, guys. Every time I've contested the enemy Udyr, it just looks awful. It seems like my champion is just so fucking weak until he scales, which would make sense. I'm a scaling jungler, so let's try to stop fighting things and like really just truly scale up, because the more I fight, the more I'm realizing like I'm just a weak piece of shit, bro. I'm just a weak fucking— I'm a weak-ass fucking dragon. Fuck, that's not good, bro. Okay, it doesn't look like they have a ward over here cuz I'm able to get this camp at least. My Aesol didn't look at me on the map. Okay, so this game is looking a little bit rough, but we're farm— we're farming. We have nice scaling. Like, this is a hard scaling champion. So maybe we can get stronger, strong enough to be relevant this game. Nice kill. My bot lane is trading kills back, so that's a good opening in this game to have some— someone who's doing okay. My bot lane, my top laner, like, thankfully he helped me out, but like, my top laner is fucked in this game. So like, let's not consider our top laner as a lane we want to play towards. Not even his fault, it's my— it's like, it's on me. But we got to keep that in mind as we play. Depending on their top laner's items and like what the top laner wants to do, we might be able to defend the top turret here. The Aatrox is probably going to flex hard here. I have my item as well, so I'm not weak at all. An enemy has been slain. High ground! An ally has been slain. Jesus, that damage. Auto Q, auto Q, auto Q. Like and you can actually just pop people. I'm pretty sure he went back in because he genuinely couldn't see me there, which is great. I played the fog line like quite well. But in, in general, like, I, I'm just feeling really, really, really strong after, after a play like that. So let's look at their comp, their AP or not. I think honestly going for defensive boots is best here. I'm probably just going to go for a Merc Treads. Uh, I already have the slow resist, I already have like extra tenacity, but like I have 41% tenacity now. I'm really happy. I have enough damage essentially, so I'm happy with all these stats here. Okay, let's pull this here. Great, we got a nice kill. I have 5 Dark Seal stacks, which is awesome. Auto Q, auto Q, auto Q as much as we can. It's such like a straightforward way of playing, but like, I'm going to kill— get this kill, hunt this guy down. Now I have my E coming up in 2. Okay, Udyr's gonna go to my top camps. I'm not gonna be able to get those, but that's okay. We got the dragon, so I'm happy. We're all very happy here. Is that warded still? Yeah, that's the warded. So we're gonna lose our top camp, so that's fine. Let's recall now and then let's go defend the, the remains of my top camps. Okay, we're gonna go for the Dusk and Dawn, pure damage. Let's buy the Blasting Wand. The Sheen is nice as well, to be honest. Honestly, the Sheen might be a little better because my— I, I have good AP ratios too though, but like the Sheen in general, because I'm an auto attacker at this point, might, might be slightly better. Anyway, let's look at our passive, guys. We have an extra 10 armor and 10 MR, which if you do the math on that, that's 300 gold for our armor, 400 gold for MR. So we have an extra like 700 gold worth of stats, plus we have like— it's like 12 now, so it's more like 800 gold worth of stats. So it feels really strong, like, that we just get free stats like that. Essentially, farming well rewards you with good stats as well. It's like extra— it's like extra effective gold. So it, it just feels so good. See if we can get into this bush here. Beautiful. See if this Aatrox wants to walk forward and play for the wave, which he should eventually. I'm just going to wait here. I have a guaranteed fear here, and that's a lot of fucking damage. I don't know, maybe he, maybe he saw us coming, but it didn't, it didn't really matter because we just do so much damage there. Let's drop the Shyvana form. I could drop my E here just for moral support, I guess. Doesn't actually do anything. And then we go back to our camps and just keep farming. I feel so strong, guys. 13 extra armor. 13 extra MR. So your goal on Shyvana is like, like realistically you want to avoid as many fights as humanly possible. But this game I definitely fucked that up by like, I just kept fighting shit. So you want to avoid doing what I was doing. But even if you do what I do, just make sure you stay alive. Because you guys saw that like, because I was alive, I was able to get like camps here and there. I was able to get like camps that like seemed hard to get. So that's what you want. That's like the middle ground on Shyvana is like, if things are hard and you make mistakes, At the very least, do not get yourself killed. That's the— that's the like middle ground. Holy fucking smokes, that damage! I'm fucking dead. Yeah, there's nothing I can do there. I'm dead. That Udyr flashed on me. I didn't hear the TP come in, but at least we can get the bot turret, and I'm really close to my Dusk and Dawn, so that's okay. I mean, I might get Dusk and Dawn from, from this. No, it's barely not enough. I mean, you guys are seeing the absolute sheer amount of damages, like the sheer amount of damage that I'm dealing. It's really high, but like there are some clear weaknesses. So I get my— I— you get 20 gold every 10 seconds, so I'd have to be waiting there for like literally like almost 30 seconds, and I don't think that's worth it. In this situation. So I'm gonna run out of base and just make the play anyway. Go try to progress the map. I just have to not go so deep. That was like the big issue there. Is I just went too deep, and I also stopped auto attacking. This champion is like, you go in to auto, and you go into auto. Like, you don't stop autoing. Man, I didn't have my ulti there, but they should all— they should still all die here. This is gonna slow them hard. If I had my ulti or if I had my Duskendawn completed, they're all dead. Nice. So should be able to cook. Nice. But you guys can see the strength at least of this champion. In all honesty, maxing your E might be worse here with this build. And like, I might— like, it's good for damage, don't get me wrong, but having bigger shield seems a lot more effective than having a little bit more damage on my E. The only thing about my W though being on lower cooldown, or my E being on lower cooldown, is it like, it gives me more damage and it also makes the slow higher. But I think if you're going this like, this like, Tenacity boots— not Tenacity boots, Tenacity rune and slow resist rune, it's actually fine to put points into your W, 'cause you already have enough follow-up and chase. Don't max your E, max your W second, I would say. I'm like contemplating, do I want to go in there or not? I checked my E out, I'm pretty useful still. Holy shit. This Udyr is around here somewhere, trying to sniff him out. Where'd he run to? I don't know, he ran that way. What the heck? So I want to do here is then take his red buff, point it to W. Yeah, they're getting cooked here, guys. Oh, that spots me. Oh fuck, that spots me. I should be fine. I have Tenacity and slow resist, so like, look at this. Jeez, that damage. And that's not even like my last strike there. My last strike does like a fuck ton of true damage. Okay, let's walk on out of here. Let's go do our camps. Meanwhile, while I'm fighting here, like, limit testing in a way, my, my Jinx farmed all my camps, which is good because that means that, like, they're at least being cleared and they're not on the map the entire time. They're all dead in the top side, probably. Nocturne also solo killed. Yeah, that guy's, like, by himself. We can definitely pick play for the Baron now. We have extra 23 armor, 23 MR. This champion is just so ridiculous when it comes to like efficiency. Okay, looks like nothing. Let's just recall here, and then what we're going to do is we're going to probably go for a Death's Dance at this point, or some MR. Uh, actually, I'm actually considering just like, what, what does my team need? Honestly, Jack Show is pretty good here, but let's go for some damage just because we're here for like, we're here to like test a bit of limits. But honestly, this game Jack Show is good because like my mid laner is really fed, my bot lane is really fed. What do I need for my team at this point? I need some defenses, so I'll go Jack Show into like pure tank. Sundered Sky is not bad here too actually over Death's Dance, but we're just gonna go take Death's Dance. Holy fuck, that was a lot of damage. Holy shit, that wasn't even close. That 1v1 was not even close, guys. Holy moly. Like, imagine you're Aatrox, you think you win that. To be fair, he has 2 items, I have 2 and a half. And that, that was not even close. All right guys, Shyvana is definitely an S++ tier champion right now. She's incredibly strong. If you guys want some free LP and you're below the rank of like, let's say, uh, Emerald, Shyvana is like broken. We'll see if they nerf her, uh, we'll see what they make happen, but right now Shyvana is absolutely giga broken. If you guys enjoyed the video, leave a like, comment, subscribe. I'll see you guys next time. Peace, peace.
