So Spell Shield is a super powerful spell on Sivir and in general, so this balance suggestion is about giving ways to kill Sivir when she misuses her spells and most importantly not taking away Spell Shield's current power that it has.
Spell Shield (E):
Cooldown: 22/19/16/13/10 --> 26/22/18/14/10 seconds
Cost: 0 --> 100/85/70/55/40 Mana
Mana refund on successful ability block: 80/95/110/125/140 --> 180 Mana
Nahui1 votesHer spell shield is so easy to play around though. It's cooldown is typically much, much higher than most spells she blocks. Increasing the cooldowns would just make her get zoned incredibly hard by thresh and blitz.
Shouldn't have to cost mana, though. Her spell shield has no passive or anything special about it. It just lasts a very short time so you just have to bait it out and now, although hasn't lost mana, only has 3 spells for the next like 20 seconds. Giving it a mana cost actually makes it easier to bait her shield because she will want to refuse to use it making it easier in general to hit her. Her E's only function is to simply block one spell, and reward her with mana to throw another Q. It's not something that is groundbreaking or is complex. It just gives her a chance vs the likes of CC.
Stacona1 votesHer spell shield gives her mana when you block a spell i increased the mana refund to make up the difference of the mana cost- the mana cost is so that you can exploit sivir if she goes oom besides that there is no difference in power