Imperial Mandate Shyvana Build

1. This build is all about Imperial Mandate and slowing your enemies.
2. You support your team through disrupting fights, slowing enemies, providing healing/buffs, and soaking damage.

1. Your Inferno Aegis (W) and Dragon's Descent (R) slows your enemies and thanks to that, this build works without Rylai's Crystal Scepter.

1. You rush Imperial Mandate as your only mandatory item.
2. Your slows trigger Font of Life AND Imperial Mandate, healing and buffing your allies.
3. Remember that you need to keep close to your allies to trigger Guardian.

How Imperial Mandate works

1. Imperial Mandate requires your TEAM to proc it for damage. Try coordinating it with your allies - mark targets when they're about to get poked or when your team goes in.

Buffing your team

1. Font of Life heal triggers various support items like Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water or even Moonstone Renewer!
2. If your team has auto attackers, get Ardent Censer. Your Font of Life will buff them constantly.
3. Bandlepipes is excellent - gives MS and buffs allies' attack speed when you CC/slow enemies.
4. Staff of Flowing Water is good item if you have lots of AP scaling champions on the team.

Adaptation

1. Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR items like Kaenic Rookern or Spirit Visage.
2. Enemy team heavy on AD? Buy Armor items like Thornmail or Randuin's Omen.
3. Your team lacks damage? You can buy damage items - Liandry's Torment or Blackfire Torch work well.

Scalemail (Passive)

1. Assists counts toward Scalemail (Passive) stacks. So don't just look for kills, being present in fights pays off.

Emberstrike (Q)

1. Emberstrike (Q) is auto attack reset, so try weaving between auto attacks, i.e. AA -> Q -> AA -> Q.
• This maximizes damage output. It is especially important to push turrets faster.

Inferno Aegis (W)

1. Inferno Aegis (W) shield scales with number of nearby enemies. For example, it is usually better to use Inferno Aegis (W) after diving into enemy team with Dragon's Descent (R), rather than before.
2. You can use Inferno Aegis (W) before taking portal or frost-gates. If you time it well, it is gonna expire mid-flight and explode, dealing damage to the enemies on your path during travel. Especially effective, if you are playing AP #champion build!

Molten Burst (E)

1. Always fire Molten Burst (E) from fog of war, bushes or at least pretend that you are looking into other direction. This way you can hit enemies more easily.

Dragon's Descent (R)

1. You are unstoppable during the transformation, you can't be CC out of it anymore and you can use it to counter incoming CC as well.
2. Aim THROUGH your targets, not at them. Dragon's Descent (R) breathes fire on enemies below and fears as you fly through them.
• Remember about the angle. Enemies will run away from you after the fear, which means they'll run toward your team if you ult correctly from the right angle. Otherwise, they will run away.
3. Dragon's Descent (R) is affected by Ultimate Haste - you generate more fury.
4. Dragon's Descent (R) can work as peel too, not just engage/burst tool. If you have good carry on your team you can consider keeping it for them in fights.
5. Use the fear to chain your full combo.

Shyvana Combo

1. R -> (AoE fear) -> empowered E -> Q -> Q -> true damage Q

1. Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
2. Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
3. Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
4. It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.