Why is Relic Shield Melee Champs only, instead of Melee Range?

xSleepy·2/26/2016, 3:55:32 PM·3 votes·964 views

it's a minor thing and i'm not saying there should be like janna relic shield meta, but why not just let ranged champs execute like normal from melee range? thresh would benefit from this a lot for sure, and it gives a little more flexibility to support builds, potentially adding another shield for non-defensive kit supports to use to help their carry. Relic Shield is also (don't have stats on this, just from experience) probably the lowest gold generation out of the three, so i think this'd be a nice little bump in the right direction. just let these ranged supports walk up and kill the cannon, guys

9 Comments

Sugar Momma2/26/2016, 3:59:00 PM2 votes

Problem with this is it gives absurd levels of sustain to champions like Nami and Sona who can poke as well and thus would automatically win every lane.

Thresh can use relic shield just fine if you practice last hitting with him. He makes a tradeoff by putting his E passive on CD, so it's fair.

Finally, it actually provides theoretically the most gold generation per minute if you use all the stacks. As a result, it already is very popular in high elo and a huge reason why tank supports are almost exclusively used in competitive.

Wenderwall2/26/2016, 3:58:16 PM1 votes

Where is the risk if ranged sup can execute minions ? You come for farm prepared to be poked.

Critmaster Garen2/26/2016, 4:43:01 PM1 votes

i wonder why theyre not adding mordes xp sharing from his w to relic shield. essentially allowing duo melee or mage + support to go bot lane, since the mages gain some extra xp.

adc are far more item dependent than xp dependent anyways, so a mage + relic shield support vs. adc + relic shield support would still profit slightly more from it. enough to make the lane even.

since adc can now regularly go into solo lane and the jungle, i think it would be fair if other types of champions could duo lane.

xSleepy2/26/2016, 5:39:42 PM1 votes

i've apparently not made clear that i am talking about executing from melee range, like even ranged champions would have to walk in to like 50 range to get the execute