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Champion guide

What the Rift Lab holds on this champion: the kit as Riot publishes it, the build the lab reviewed, and the matchups it has documented. Anything the dataset does not record is left out rather than filled in.

In-game title
the Half-Dragon
Official role
FIGHTER, TANK
Lane
Jungle
Difficulty
Low
Source tier
A

Abilities

Riot's own text for each slot, in the order the champion learns them.

PASSIVE Fury of the Dragonborn

Shyvana gains stacks when slaying large and epic monsters, as well as champions. Dragons grant extra stacks. Every 100 stack enhances one of Shyvana's abilities.

1 Twin Bite

Shyvana strikes twice on her next attack. Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Twin Bite. Dragon Form: Twin Bite cleaves all units in front of Shyvana. Slaying Mountain Drake causes Twin Bite to slow enemies while in Dragon Form.

2 Burnout

Shyvana surrounds herself in fire, dealing magic damage per second to nearby enemies and moving faster for 3 seconds. The Movement Speed reduces over the duration of the spell. Basic attacks extend the duration of Burnout. Dragon Form: Burnout grows in size. Slaying Cloud Drake gives Shyvana 25% extra Movement Speed while in Dragon Form.

3 Flame Breath

Shyvana unleashes a fireball that deals damage to all enemies it encounters and leaves cinders on the target, marking them for 5 seconds. Shyvana's basic attacks on marked targets deal a percentage of their maximum Health as damage on-hit. Dragon Form: Flame Breath explodes on impact or at target location, dealing bonus damage and scorching the earth for a short duration. Slaying Infernal Drake converts damage dealt to marked enemies to true damage while in Dragon Form.

ULTIMATE Dragon's Descent

Shyvana transforms into a dragon and takes flight to a target location. Enemies along her path take damage and are knocked toward her target location. Shyvana passively gains Fury per second and gains 2 Fury on basic attack.

Reviewed build

The reviewed purchase order and rune page for this champion. Every entry that has a page of its own is linked to it; an item the catalogue holds no page for is printed as a name rather than pointed at a page that does not exist.

Core build order

  1. Trinity Force
  2. Blade of the Ruined King
  3. Death's Dance
  4. Berserker's Greaves

Runes

Situational answers

One slot, changed when the enemy team changes the problem. These are answers, not automatic purchases.

Matchups

  • 5reviewed counter links
  • 5reviewed synergy links

Harder matchups

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Ability text and the in-game title follow Riot's official Wild Rift champion pages. The tier letter is the external snapshot shown on the tier list, and the build is the Nexus reviewed snapshot — neither is a win rate.