Early Game

track the enemy jungler

Ever since Shyvana's introduction to the game there has been a rampant misconception that she's weak in the early game, particularly before level 6. This makes no sense to me. She has one of the fastest jungle clears patch after patch and some of the highest damage of any champion in the game levels 3-5. The security and pressure of her early game is one of the things that keeps me coming back to play her season after season. Most players just don't understand how to jungle. They run around the map killing monsters and sometimes darting into a lane to go for a kill. The strategic skill floor for Shyvana is a bit higher. Her strengthsyou to do things a jungler should be doing anyway. If you don't play a nuanced jungle game, then you can't access her strengths in any meaningful way, and her weaknesses, particularly her susceptibility to kiting, will seem painfully overbearing.So what am I talking about? Well for one thing you need to. This is done through a combination of map awareness, warding, and most of all using common sense to infer the enemy jungler's current location, status, and action plan. (This is something you should always do as a jungler, on any champion. FYI) Once you figure this out, everything else is easy. Your main goals in the early game are counter-ganking and counter-jungling. Shyvana excels at both of these. She wins just about any 2v2 or 3v3 that you'll encounter in this game, ESPECIALLY as a counter-engage after the enemy has used their mobility cooldowns. She also has extremely potent ganks IF you are smart about your engage method. Use pings to work with your laners to get them to bait cooldowns and engage fights just as you show up to to turn it in your team's favor. After you get 6, a whole new world of dive potential opens up, especially withAnd of course, you need to place very high emphasis on drakes. On other champions, in some games, it can be fine to prioritize other objectives at the expense of drakes. For Shyvana this is a more costly tradeoff. If you fail to secure drakes, you'll miss out on stats from. A great thing about elemental drakes is that contesting them leads to early skirmishing, and Shyvana is phenomenal in early and mid game skirmishes.