League doesn't need a shield breaker item

Cloud273·Mar 8, 2018·1 votes·804 views

I know they're considering adding this, but I really feel this isn't necessary. We already have true damage, %health damage, and Riot is going to add a rune that grants true damage. With the insane amount of burst that exists in this game, we truly DO NOT need this item. And if did well in lane and got fed you should have no problem breaking through the shield. If you played like sht in lane then too bad for you. You either have the damage to break through the shield or you don't, but people shouldn't be able to play like sht and still have a way to get through your defenses.

5 Comments

RewtMar 8, 20182 votes

its to tone back protect the <enter Hyper carry here> comps where you just run a metric fuckload of shields and the person becomes immortal and murders your entire team. this way you can punch through that cancerous Janna shield.

DOUBLE TAPPED EMar 8, 20181 votes

Why not just have grievous wounds affect shield health?

Cloud273Mar 8, 20181 votes

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Why not just have grievous wounds affect shield health?

That doesn't even make sense. In order to inflict grievous wounds in the first place you have to actually deal damage to the champion, and in order to deal damage you have to break the shield first.

R492Mar 8, 20181 votes

Pretty sure the idea here is to balance out teams so that even if you had issues early you can still make a comeback, League been having issues with balancing teams lately and so this can help to compensate

Schwaka0Mar 8, 20181 votes

The issue isn't single shields, it's when multiple champions stack shields all on 1 champion and effectively double (if not more) their health. THAT is why people are asking for an item to deal with shields.