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The Shield Meta

Unlucky47··3 votes·766 views

Yes I believe that leauge of legends has entered what I'm going to call the "shield" meta. This is essentially a meta where the team that has the most shields on their team wins. A lot of supports even get up to 4 or 5 shields from their abilities and items. On top of the effectiveness of redemption, it makes teams with more tanks impossible to kill without a shredder like ashe or jinx. I'm a little irritated at the fact that in almost every game, I will lose AT LEAST one team fight because I couldn't kill a carry with 200 hp. You jump on them only for them to get a karma shield into a locket shield into a face of the mountain shield (if they have it) and top it all of with a giant ass aoe max health heal and you just effectively stopped well over 3000 damage from landing on one person through sheer shields alone. It is ridiculous and it's getting out of hand.

Those are my opinions on it anyways. I can never look at a carry and think that I can kill them because I know damn well that I can't burst 1700+4000 in shields.

WAIT I don't have a problem with shields, just the strength and amount that are so readily available in the game.

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ChaddyFantome1 votes

hate to say i called it but..... https://youtu.be/DxlbFFzEVMQ?t=16s

N0rth Wind1 votes

Pick a team with disruption and assassins. That's how you deal with it.

If the enemy team has good coordination, is peeling for the carries and is dumping heals and shields on them, you can't really counter that alone. You also need your jungler and support to not be braindead, but instead coordinate with you and disrupt the enemy formation or CC them, and then the assassin will take care of the rest.

That's literally what the role is meant to do. When everything else fails to kill a carry, you bring an Assassin.

Unlucky471 votes

That's the problem though I usually am the assassin. We'll start team fights and I'll be skirting around the back to jump on an adc and the moment I do they get shielded out the ass. I don't even get cced half the time. They just get enough shields that I can't kill them and everyone focuses my team while the adc kills me in three hits.

The marksman class is becoming harder and harder to deal with recently.

datfatguy1 votes

But isn't all of this the point of a support? To make sure the carry doesn't die? Also why would you try and kill a carry if they have their support with them?

Unlucky471 votes

But to keep one person alive do they really need an aoe heal or an item that shields all of their allies?

datfatguy1 votes

Well, yes, their carry should be the main priority on who to peel. But that shouldn't mean that they should let the rest of the team die.

Meep Man1 votes

Yes, because there is only one item that shield/heals only one ally.

Titanium701 votes

Actually I'm slowly falling in lave with this 'Meta', it sure has some problems... but I had some pretty amazing teamfights lastly. (ignoring the fact I'm creeping around Silver right now and a 'good' TF just means a TF where noone screwed up completely. =P) The fate of the whole team dependand one this one Assassin doing his job or not... that's not the game I like. Good Teamcomps - smart Teammates that's how I want to win games.

Additionally, seeing Supports having alot of impact without giving them more Gold/DMG feels really good.

Unlucky471 votes

The problem is that supports are having too much of an impact. They went from utility/keeping carries alive to keeping entire teams alive. I don't have a problem with a braum ulting at the right time to cc several people and then peeling an assassin off their carry while using their FotM shield to prevent some damage on them, but I do have a problem with the braum pressing locket+redemption+FotM and only ulting one or two people and somehow win the fight without actually playing it well. Does that make sense? Like I want people to actually play the game and use their own skills instead of stuff that was given to them.

Titanium701 votes

Thing is: This being an Itemization Issue, allowing your Supp to get them as well - (Not a Supp main, so I'm not sure how those like the idea of mandatory Items, but that's another longer story, hi sightstone) - and saving the poor Assassin who ran into a trap.

Playing an Assassin right now forces alot more decision making - seeing a (unfed) Supp+Carry wandering around is no longer a free double. (which makes sense (1v2)). It's a change in playstyle making Assassins alot more Team dependant, which might hit some players but is an overall huge step towards a healthy game.

Unlucky471 votes

So supports being able to press one or two keys on their keyboard to stop an assassin who avoided being seen and planning to get to the back line is healthy? I do depend on my team to start the fight while I'm aiming for carries but the thing is that all my effort is foiled by little to no effort from their support. The game being "healthy" would imply that there are ways to stop an assassin from killing someone, and there are ways for that assassin to kill someone. It's a two way street and the supports are closing off one of the lanes.

Unlucky471 votes

So to kind of put out an idea I think it would be better if the shields didn't stack. Like if karma puts a locket shield and then shielded an ally it would take the larger of the two shields. This would prevent over shielding

Ark Sorcerer1 votes

Seeing how Ashe and Jinx aren't 'shredders'... umm... So does that mean you have been seeing Lux, Viktor, Karma, Morgana or CotC Mid lane mages/assassins then?

Unlucky471 votes

This didn't have anything to do about CotC but okay. I use the term shredders as the most effective adcs at destroying tanks by shredding armor and health

Ark Sorcerer1 votes

By "shredding" armour, do you mean with items like Black Cleaver? Because that is the only way that an marksmen can shred armour. Or is there another way to decrease that stat? In the B.C. case, that would be Lucian and MF, not Jinx and Ashe. I mentioned CotC because it is a shield and last I check, majority of mid lane champs don't have shields.

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