Why is there no counter to shields?
I was watching Scarra's thoughts on the preseason and he makes a good point that there's no real counter to shields.
The idea behind shields (at least IMO) is that they are a temporary massive health boost. However, shields are so good that they crowd out healing. You can reduce healing, you can find ways around it through a variety of sources...not shields though. Thus, shields become the better choice. Why take healing which has counters when the only defense against shields is "Try to do way more damage than you initially planned on doing".
Couple this with the shield/heal power boost plus windspeakers and suddenly shields are thrice as hard to break through. Why is this allowed? Theoretically heals should be the stronger of the two but are open to countering while shields are less effective but lack a hard counter. The only possible recourse ideas I can see are:
- Make Grievous wounds reduce shields.
- Some manner of item that gives you increased damage against shields.
- Reduce the power of shields across the board.
While we're at it, we could maybe make 
work with shields too? Maybe? I'unno, I would like for it to be better on champions like Malphite or Naut who really protect themselves with shields. (Although it'd need a nerf somewhere to compensate.) Bottom line is that shields are just WAY too good right now and will likely crowd out assassins.
(PS: Do something about exhaust too. Seriously. Having a summoner spell completely invalidate someone feels like shit. )
