I really hope there will be more work for Top Lane other than just D Shield Changes

BLIGHTBRINGER·Nov 9, 2019·1 votes·826 views

Those changes do almost absolutely nothing because most of the lane bullies, mages, or who ever else that will try to make you have a bad time will oftenly never buy Dorans Shield because they don't need that extra Sustain, thus why they take other better options...

Most of the lane bullies, mages and etc are all abusing the Inspiration Tree (Mainly Klepto and Sustain Options), where they get away with running a set of the following:

Corruption Pot as their first Item most of the time
Wait for Biscuits to arrive
Farm Klepto Stacks for extra consumables

The free sustain in general needs to be targetted, keep the sustain but make it so that if they want it they need to invest into it. Make Biscuits replace Potions at certain level, or make the Biscuit sustain amount scale based on level and not being flat good at early levels, I don't know, something.

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iiGazeiiNov 9, 20191 votes

The changes to Doran's Shield aren't to keep ranged bullies from taking it, it's to buff it for the melees getting bullied. The HoT from taking constant poke has nearly doubled.

Up to 30 health over 10 seconds >>> up to 3 health per second.

Up to 40 health over 8 seconds >>> up to 5 health per second

Combined with the removal of Kleptomancy in Season 10, along with naturally increased jungle pressure topside due to the objective changes, and ranged champions are going to have a much harder time forcing a melee champion out of lane. Their weakness has always historically been to gank them, due to their overall squishiness and low mobility. Removing the free gold generation and sustain of Kleptomancy and increasing the healing Doran's Shield provides melee champions means playing it safe and waiting for a gank is a viable strategy again.