As some of you may know, I've been watching the LCS as of recently, and a common trend I see among adcs is that overheal is preferred over triumph. I simply don't understand the point, as sure a small shield is always good, but triumph has saved my butt more times than I care to count.....Why would you take overheal over it's alternatives?
As some of you may know, I've been watching the LCS as of recently, and a common trend I see among adcs is that overheal is preferred over triumph. I simply don't understand the point, as sure a small shield is always good, but triumph has saved my butt more times than I care to count.....Why would you take overheal over it's alternatives?
Overheal effectively increases your maximum health by 10%. In order for you to have healed that much damage with a single instance of Triumph, you would have to be missing around 83% of your health. Whilst it's true that you can trigger it multiple times in a row, you'd still have to trigger twice whilst below 60% health to have gained as much effective health as you would gain from having Overheal. As Triumph is a heal, it is reduced by Grievous Wounds, which is common, where as Overheal's shield is not. Overheal also makes it harder to burst you, which is far more likely to happen with the kind of coordination you find at the highest level of play. And finally, Triumph gives you bonus gold on takedown, but as there are very few kills in competitive matches, this part of the rune goes almost completely to waste.
Overheal is like a very miniature 
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The shield is very useful. Pair it with Legend: Bloodline and you can easily stack up your shield and get extra LIFE!
Overheal is gaurenteed power Triumph is projected power
Pro scene tends to lean towards gaurenteed things.
