Please make Magic/AD specific shields more clear.

steinberg·6/17/2017, 10:25:09 PM·5 votes·508 views

Magic/AD specific shields like Morgana's shield, Galio's shield, or Camille's shield are a bit confusing for an enemy that is not applying that specific damage type. Take Galio for example. When playing Renekton into Galio, it can be misleading to both the Renekton and Galio when judging Galio's health, since Renekton does very little magic damage. The shield makes it seem like Galio has more health than he he really does. A retort to this would be the fact that the type-specific shields are different color. But to that point, when looking at a champion's health, most players want to just require a quick glance. Having to think about the shield and where the Galio's actual health value is, is really a lot more than a player should have to do. To think about that quick Flash, engage to kill or whether you can turn the extended fight, those are split second decisions. Now adding the discerning of what your opponents really health value is, it becomes much too long of a process against those with type-specific shields.

My proposal would be to either add the shield bar somewhere else, next to the health bar, or have it only cover half (vertically) of the health bar. That way you can see the actual health value under it.

5 Comments

Tobias Brackner6/18/2017, 4:34:48 AM2 votes

Uh, aren't the shields color-coded?

Like if I'm Renek going into Galio I just laugh to myself when I see that purple bar and just go in. You can still count the boxes to get a guesstimate of the health and that will be perfectly fine up to maybe Master level play.

AwesomeGuyDj6/17/2017, 10:58:40 PM1 votes

BUUUMP. Agreed. I even have this problem when im playing the champion with the shield sometimes. Its easier/faster to look at the bar above your head then your health bar.

Tails90166/18/2017, 3:01:47 AM1 votes

How about they add a line, like Kled has, but a different color?