League of Shields is getting out of hand

AZ Frost·Dec 24, 2016·1 votes·969 views

Sure buying items to help support your team is cool and all, but when riot starts adding free shields into keystones...hell no! Some champs are just flat broken from that. Turns the game sideways to a few champs that now have free power for nothing.

Take Vi for example...she already gets a shield from her passive, then combine that to the keystone when she hits. Free double shield (esp. in the early game) is wrong. She can charge in and break your jaw, shield up, lose no HP and walk out. No counter play at all! Even if the other player were to land a combo onto her as a counter atk, shield sucks it all up.

Now i'm sure there are other stories out there to prove this point. This game is screwed for the most part. Last season was "League of Tanks". Guess now it's "League of Shields"

What do you all think?

6 Comments

PupelDec 24, 20162 votes

The word Free is way overused in this game.

DynikusDec 24, 20162 votes

I thought last season was league of thunderlord's?

King GeffyDec 24, 20162 votes

You make a really good point since right now it is at a weird angle. So Riot made the shield "Courage of the Colossus" and other items (ex. Redemption) to counteract these stealthy basterds. But these items are mostly always taken out of hand (ex. 50% Dodge Jax vs ADC) to the extent of Vi "gets a shield from her passive, then combine that to the keystone when she hits. Free double shield (esp. in the early game) is wrong. She can charge in and break your jaw, shield up, lose no HP and walk out" scenarios. Hopefully Riot can get this underway while sorting out the Galio & Warwick VGU, Tyler1 unbanned maybe, and more.

DryditchDec 24, 20161 votes

The reason there are so many shields is because there's also too much damage. A support has roughly half a second to save his or her ADC from a fed assassin or tank or something, and unless that ADC is Vayne, they need a good 2-3 seconds worth of shields and healing. Want to eliminate a lot of the shields? Pick off the support first, or roam together with an assassin and CC the person shielding the ADC. Trust me. You'll have an easier time of it.

AZ FrostDec 24, 20161 votes

The items aren't the issue, it's the keystone. Ekko is another champ that exploits this.

DryditchDec 24, 20161 votes

Wait... your complaint isn't about viable support itemization? I'm honestly shocked.

Courage of the Colossus isn't that horrifying when you consider what's available to the rest of the classes of champions, and if it breaks one or two champions while making an entire group viable, then I'm OK with that, and those specific edge cases need to be toned down instead.