Why does Yasuo shield stay up at max while Mordakaiser goes down to 25%?

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If played right, both these champs can gain their maximum shield twice in a fight. Mord can stack his with his W and E from minions and then engage. While fighting, his ult and Q and help to restack his shield to is max value.

Yasuo can engage with his shield up. Then If he then ults, the shield is up again.

So basically, both champs can access their shield twice in a fight if done right. However, there is a major difference in Yasuo defense and mord defense

Yasuo shield, is much easier to acquire twice. He also has windwall which can absorb insane amounts of damage.

While Mord can gain his shield twice, it is much harder. His shield gradually diminish to 25% over a few seconds and he is immobile, making it hard to do the damage needed to acquire his shield. He also does not have a windwall that blocks infinite damage over 4 seconds. He has a heal which is also based om him landing his W to gain that heal. Which again can be challenging because of his low mobility. The W also is just a little bit larger than his AA range so while fighting, targets tend to remain just on the edge of the W ring. This means if they just move a little, they are out of his W range.

Why does Yasuo have a much better shield mechanic while remaining hypermobile? On the other end, Mord has a good shield, but faces huge challenges to fully use it while being immobile.

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PermabannedGaren4 votes

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If played right, both these champs can gain their maximum shield twice in a fight. Mord can stack his with his W and E from minions and then engage. While fighting, his ult and Q and help to restack his shield to is max value.

Yasuo can engage with his shield up. Then If he then ults, the shield is up again.

So basically, both champs can access their shield twice in a fight if done right. However, there is a major difference in Yasuo defense and mord defense

Yasuo shield, is much easier to acquire twice. He also has windwall which can absorb insane amounts of damage.

While Mord can gain his shield twice, it is much harder. His shield gradually diminish to 25% over a few seconds and he is immobile, making it hard to do the damage needed to acquire his shield. He also does not have a windwall that blocks infinite damage over 4 seconds. He has a heal which is also based om him landing his W to gain that heal. Which again can be challenging because of his low mobility. The W also is just a little bit larger than his AA range so while fighting, targets tend to remain just on the edge of the W ring. This means if they just move a little, they are out of his W range.

Why does Yasuo have a much better shield mechanic while remaining hypermobile? On the other end, Mord has a good shield, but faces huge challenges to fully use it while being immobile.

This is one of the single most idiotic posts I've ever read.

Mordekaiser has low cooldowns, and one of his abilities has a low cooldown as well as the ability to give him 25% of his shield for each enemy champion he hits with it, not counting the shield it gets from the damage it does to them or minions. His shield is almost permanently up in fights.

http://champion.gg/champion/Mordekaiser/Top

Notice that Mordekaiser has the single lowest damage taken stat on average for a top laner. Doesn't seem to make sense, considering he's a short ranged melee champion who is meant to be in the middle of fights.

Then you realize damage to his shield does not count as damage to champions.

Furthermore, Yasuo's shield only lasts one second, and caps at 510 health. Mordekaiser easily tops this if he has a little over two thousand health, and he should have much more.

Mordekaiser's shield is better than Yasuo's. There is no comparison.

Kewlipo3 votes

Yasuo's shield lasts one second.

Poke him.

DunkinNoobs2 votes

Why does Morde gain shield by doing damage? Why does Morde's shield scale with his health? Why does Morde's shield decay rather than dissipating completely?

So unfair. #BuffYasuoShield2016

ph1234k1 votes

Take Yas vs Mord. Mord should win every time.

Jon11741 votes

Morde has a completely different shield mechanic

Mecha MaIphite1 votes

Because they're two different champions.

GULAG 4 U1 votes

Different mechanics friend. And I've played both champions, morde's shield is much more powerful and easier to stack. Yasuo's is much more crappy, but, he gets 2x crit in exchange.

Salron1 votes

Woah it's almost like different champions do different things

Akali is SO HOT1 votes

Yasuo gets a shitty shield that he can't control when to use for 1 second. Morde gets a shield that can block a metric ton of damage and can have almost 100% uptime if the Morde player is even half competent.

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