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Thoughts on the buff for people that didn't watch my video - it's better for toplane than jg but jg voli > top voli RN imo, best build is dusk - cleaver (adapt last 4 items to game)y

5 biggest mistakes regarding buys I see my students make that hurt your game more than you think.

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1. Don't buy control wards before your first 2 items- With the snowballing nature of season 16 and huge impact Drakes/Herald have, League is a game that is dictated by who gets their item spikes first and buying control wards delays your item spikes. Getting later spikes reduces your ability to carry/impact Early fights especially below GM where fighting is prominent and random. The most important spikes are always your first and second item spikes because they are your core items that establish your champion identity- think Tirforce on Shyvana, Hexplate on Nocturne, Bork on Warwick ETC. Control wards are also less useful in the early game because it's much easier to track junglers and laners at this point (top is top, mid is mid, bot is bot), so you can definitely buy control wards, but don't do it before your 1-2 Spike.
2. Always Prioritize Ruby Crystals- One of the biggest misconceptions Junglers have is you should prioritize damage components over Hp components in an item, remember HP IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE COMBAT STAT IN LEAGUE. On top of this, building HP also helps with your clear speed because of the way jungle pet's damage scales off of HP, always prioritize buying ruby crystals over damage components in items such as Dusk and Dawn/ Tri Force.
3. Potion Start is Useless- In League's recommended buys you will always see jungle pet + a health pot for 50 gold, never click this and always only click to buy the jungle item. Similair to buying control wards, potion buys delay your item spikes and also give you a significantly worse first base (950 Gold after full clearing compared to 1000 without pot buy). Remember the way Jungle Pet works now you get a lot of healing from the pet itself so potions are just useless compared to previous seasons and in fights itself the amount and duration of healing is too irrelevant to ever matter.
4. Base ASAP with Item Spikes- Item spikes = op, a lot of people think staying to clear camps is better for tempo but remember, 99% of the time basing for your item allows you to clear faster, join any fights near you at full strength and fight off invades. Not basing for item spikes not only leaves you but also your team extremely vulnerable on the map and even if you do get invaded cause you based, you'll be able to use that timer that you were supposed to clear your camps with to either make a play or re-invade so unless the enemy is hitting your camps in front of you when they're significantly weaker, always base for spikes.
5. Don't Upgrade Boots before 2nd Item- Similair to what we talked about above, boots upgrades can have it's impact but they are almost NEVER better than having your first and second item spike. Unless you have a perfect steelcaps angle vs 5 on hit champions or perfect mercs angle vs 5 ap + heavy CC champs where you can buy boots after 1st item,always buy boots after 2nd item to reach those power spikes earlier.

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I’ve also coached over 40 sessions of Shyvana players in the last 2 months, these 5 tips are the most common mistakes I see students (or myself) make.

1. Correct Set-up: First let’s talk about runes (see image 2), you should be running Pta Truimph Haste Cut-down Footwear Approach velocity every single game. I’ve seen even creators like Kirei not take approach velocity when it’s literally one of the most important runes to take on Shyvana to compensate for her extreme lack of mobility. Cut-down is also > Last Stand because it makes Shyvana a more multi faceted champ where you can play to poke with Cut Down and still have more than enough capabilities to stand and stat check 99% of champs in the game. With regards to the build please please don’t go the kraken dusk build, it is much more suboptimal for a number of reasons I cover in https://youtu.be/TPNJhP-pGRA , but the main reasons are it’s lack of tankiness and reliance on auto attacks. The best build is triforce, shojin, deaths dance, steraks/jak sho
2. Be aggressive early- A lot of people think Shyvana is a champ that you afk on pre 6 because you don’t really have a gapcloser or any CC. What people forget, is that Shyvana’s auto resets from Q along with Pta gives her one of the highest early game short combo bursts you’ll find. Generally speaking I try to gank lanes with CC but if there are lanes that are very pushed up that I can just look to use E and approach velocity to run down, I also look for them.
3. Avoid playing grubs- Shyvana is a very very good turret taker without Grubs so it’s not really a necessary objective on Shyvana. Grubs also takes away your ability to play around bot lane for over a minute and if you don’t play the setup right, risks you either dying or losing your bot camps. Since shyvana spikes hard on triforce shojin, you want to try to crossmap enemy camps when they go for grubs and try to accelerate getting these spikes, if you have good angles you can even play for dives on enemy bot lane.
4. Not every kill is worth your ult- Especially in the mid game around 3rd and 4th drake, a lot of people get very casual with their ult and will often throw it away just for a kill resulting in them not having it up for the fights. It’s very important that you try to be disciplined with your ult both in the sense that you don’t use it for fights unless you absolutely have to but also to not use it for a pointless kill on the 1/10 vayne top when there is soul point spawning in 40 seconds.
5. Ult usage- There’s too much to discuss regarding Shyvana’s Ult like for example the fact that you can extend Shyvana’s ult range if you ult through thick walls but the most important tip I can give is you need to be decisive and confident. There’s nothing more depressing to see when there’s a huge ult engage and you don’t go for it and you end up never finding something like that again, the trick is to give yourself conditions, for example if this champion steps here I am going in or if my teammate engages like this I’m going in, this will help you land cleaner ults and yield much better results. Hope this helps you guys out there and if you have any question just ask me on stream I answer everything (also feel free to request a Shyvana game if I’m playing something else)

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These 5 tips are mistakes I see either students I coach or other Belveth players make that significantly lowers their chance of winning.

1. Don't Play to Scale- Treat Belveth like you would any other jungler, being aggressive early will allow you to accumulate stacks and items quick allowing you to reach your breakpoints faster. RMB Belveth ganks aren't as good as pre-rework but she still has a 4 second dash, a knockup and an execute making her better at ganks than most junglers out there.

2. Correct setup- Take PTA with Cashback/Triple tonic double adapative and FLAT HP. Kraken- Bork are always your first 2 items Deaths Dance Witts End Rageblade are your third/fourth options after it's adaptive dependant on game state.

3. Always Play Grubs- Grubs give you a total of 7 stacks of your passive (2 per grub and 1 for the R coral) and give you a huge gold injection in the early game and a possible massive injection in the Mid-Late game when you take tower plates. Belveth is the best jungler at using Grubs so you have to make sure you actually play for them (ping your support, tempo your recalls and items specifically for Grubs)

4. Play on Sidelanes- Belveth is not the most insane teamfighter especially when you are vs tough comps that outrange/burst or can CC you. This is why it's important to use Belveth's mobility from her Q to try to generate plays on sidelanes and gain an advantage that way. A big tip regarding this is when you don't have form, almost always try to regain it on sidelanes where you can create a numbers advantage, rather than mid lane.

5. Dragons are overrated - In a perfect world obviously you want to take drakes and secure soul but on a scaling champion like Belveth, this isn't always possible especially when bot or mid are losing. I typically opt to give drake if I can crossmap either at least 2 camps or a kill because if you can accelerate your item spikes you will always be able to carry on 3 items. Remember a good Belveth outscales every Dragon Soul out there. (Elder is not overrated...)

Hope this helps you guys out there and if you have any question just ask me on stream I answer everything (also you get to see me play Belveth in Challenger)