Ap shen plus new rune shield bash op?

bopfortips·10/31/2018, 4:46:29 AM·1 votes·1,897 views

Was reading about the new shield bash rune, and I started to think of champs who could abuse it. There is sion, viktor, most supports, (especially janna). Then I thought. What about full AP shen? It can give like a 2k shield if you get full build, and if you had a teammate that had shield bash, then you ult them with that 2k shield, would it do like 1k damage? It says that whenever you get a shield, not specifically that you have to grant a shield to yourself I believe, so that would be kinda op if they didnt cap it or something.

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DarkTree110/31/2018, 6:23:00 AM1 votes

i mean. AP shen lategame doesn't work, at all. even if you're running 40% cdr with a fully stacked ultimate hunter, it still has a long-ass cooldown, and shen would basically be useless outside of ult shields. on top of that, shield bash only empowers ONE auto. so one auto on your ult target, who probably isn't running shield bash unless you're premade with them, would do like. 150-250 or so extra damage. every 70 or so seconds. if you really want that.

if you meant for the shen player, his passive shield doesn't scale with AP whatsoever so it would be meaningless for him to go AP, and from what i remember shield bash specifies "Whenever you GAIN a shield", so i don't think it would work in the first place.

Ice Weasel X10/31/2018, 6:26:06 AM1 votes

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It can give like a 2k shield if you get full build, and if you had a teammate that had shield bash, then you ult them with that 2k shield, would it do like 1k damage?

Not even close. Yesterday's PBE iteration of Shield Bash has an 8.5% scaling from the shield and 1.5% bonus health scaling on top of the 4-22 base damage.

2k shield grants 170 damage from the shield alone. Assuming a level 18 shielded champion, that's 22 + 170 + (1.5% bonus HP). You'd need (808 / 0.015) bonus HP to reach a 1k damage shield bash. In other words, you'd need almost 54k bonus HP for that damage.

A 2k shield + 2k bonus HP would give you 200 scaled damage on top of the base value for a total of 222.