Nah not at all. I just looked at your match history and so far you have never played a bruiser with steracks recently, do us a favor and play toplane with a bruiser and with steracks. The shield is nice but with the amount of burst in this game it isn’t that much. In my opinion it is kinda underwhelming tbh, the shield is kinda nice but after 0.75 SECONDS of the shield activating it decays! So not only do you have the enemy team focusing you, you also have a shield (I know for most bruisers 70% of their max health is a lot) that is also quickly decaying, so the shield isn’t really that good in extended fights.
And btw steracks gives BONUS AD now, not BASE AD. So the trinity and steracks combo is extremely weaker then it before. Btw most bruisers have super small gap closers and can pretty easily be kited, so if you kite away and wait out the shield you can easily re-engage and burst the bruiser down.
For me when I play bruisers and get steracks I only get at least 2 seconds of more time that I am alive in a teamfight (assuming that my bot or mid lost lane).
if you are having a problem with bruisers and steracks then you can do this: bait out their engage or gap closers, pop their steracks and CC chain them while the shield is active, they can’t get to you that easily and the shield is being wasted (because you are keeping them CC’d they can’t fight back and make you attack them to effectively use the shield) after the shield is gone you can CC the bruiser more and focus him/her or just focus all of your team’s damage and burst him down.
