Relic Shield Item not working with some characters

Zanself·Mar 22, 2016·3 votes·836 views

I have been going support for awhile and I try to use the relic shield to increase my gold by killing the cannon minions in the waves and still allow my adc to benefit. the problem is that I last hit with hardly any life bar on the creeps and it does not execute minions. I had a minion down to 100 hp(tested this against my basic auto attack which only did 66 damage), and none of the times did the relic shield proc execute. It has happened, but it appears to be random. Yes, at the time I was trying to execute I had full stacks of procs on the item. This happened in multiple games and multiple waves of minions today. I have noticed it mainly on Morgana, but its also happened on other characters as well.

14 Comments

El Condor PasaMar 22, 20163 votes

The execute is for melee basic attacks.

EndlessSorcererMar 22, 20163 votes

Relic shield shares gold if you kill a minion through any source of damage.

The execute only occurs on melee basic attacks.

Morgana (and THRESH!!!!!) are not melee champions; they are ranged champions.

tl;dr Read the bloody tool-tip.

This false bug report shows up at least twice a week.

TheLastShadow45Mar 22, 20161 votes

This time it was on Morg and not Thresh.

G12Mar 22, 20161 votes

Thresh is also a melee, and why would relic be in suggested items if it doesn't work with Thresh?

ZombiemasterMar 22, 20162 votes

No, Thresh is not a melee champion. He is classified as a ranged champion, therefore the execute portion of Relic Shield will not work on him. You can still share gold, but you have to last hit the minions normally, though Thresh does have an easier time than others thanks to the bonus damage from his E.

G12Mar 22, 20161 votes

Hmm, assuming you are right, relic then shouldn't even be used on Thresh

EndlessSorcererMar 22, 20161 votes

Thresh is a ranged champion. His autoattack animation doesn't have a projectile and may "appear" melee when he's close to the target, but he is still a ranged champion.

Relic Shield does work with Thresh. As I had just said above, "Relic shield shares gold if you kill a minion through any source of damage."

The execute is melee-only, but that is the only aspect of the item which is.

Relic shield is recommended on Thresh because

He is a tank who benefits from the health and shield provided by the item line
It provides sustain for him and his ADC (which he otherwise lacks)
Thresh's Flay passive help him last-hit minions.

LùmenMar 22, 20162 votes

This happens to me on thresh. such a pain in the ass. i need to wait for a minion to drop to less than 50 hp to proc it. it's so dumb

RyùuzakiMar 22, 20162 votes

btw u can proc it on thresh if u get close to the minion because he's considered as a melee champion when he's close the the target

ZombiemasterMar 22, 20161 votes

I don't know if that was true in the past, but that is not true now. It doesn't matter how close you are to the target, Thresh is still classified as a ranged champion, and all of his attacks are "ranged" attacks for the purposes of Relic Shield and it's upgrades, and thus will not proc the execute portion of the items.

El Condor PasaMar 22, 20161 votes

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I don't know if that was true in the past, but that is not true now.

It was never true.

KaleidosMar 22, 20161 votes

I probably shouldn't have to ask this, but this is just to be sure, was your partner within 1050 units of you when you were trying to execute the minion, and if so were you using a melee Champion?

TheLastShadow45Mar 22, 20161 votes

If you read the full thing he was playing Morg.

G12Mar 22, 20161 votes

I hate it too, it sometimes works on thresh and it sometimes doesn't on Thresh...