Should there be a GW effect for shields? New Aatrox has it in his passive.

darkdill··1 votes·686 views

Seeing that Aatrox's passive now inflicts a "Grievous Wounds Plus" effect that affects both healing and shields, I have to wonder if Riot intends to add an item in the future that acts as an anti-shield GW weapon.

In the past, I've entertained the idea of an item that causes its wielder to deal bonus damage to shields, but it causes muddied calculations when used with burst attacks. Anti-shield bonus damage exists on Irelia's passive, but she can't burst with it on the level of, say, Zed.

Having an effect that causes shields to halve in effectiveness seems like a much more straightforward approach. It doesn't result in as many "How did that blow kill me?" moments because you knew (or should have known) ahead of time that your shield was weaker, meaning the onus is on the player to accommodate for their weaker shields.

On a related note, I also wonder whether Riot intends to change GW to affect both heals and shields altogether. That'd probably be a bit too much, though, as it'd make summoner 21 totally useless.

Any thoughts on this?

7 Comments

BLIGHTBRINGER1 votes

The shield debuff effect seems to be quite minor by the looks of it.

darkdill1 votes

Hard to tell without exact numbers, but numbers aren't the important part. The important part is the concept of reducing shield effectiveness.

BLIGHTBRINGER1 votes

True, guess we will have to wait till he is released in PBE. Hopefully soon.

Oleandervine1 votes

There should be something I think, and they should have considered it long before they entertained the idea of nerfing enchanter shields AND healing/shield power items into oblivion. They could have made Lord Dominic's have this effect, as the opposite of Mortal Reminder with GW, and it would have gone a long way towards balancing shielding.

That said, even Barrier would need to be hammered by this effect. If GW can affect Heal, than whatever the shield version would be should be able to affect Barrier.

Colton1471 votes

Aatrox is most likely going to be released incredibly weak like Ornn, Kaisa, and Pyke when they were released.

BLIGHTBRINGER1 votes

Honestly the only weak or strange part about him is his really tiny E dash active. The rest seems fine..

DW Diana1 votes

Just wait until they release the figures before complaining. There will be plenty of company for you then...

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