Talk:Barrier/@comment-4091261-20150828153106/@comment-5955640-20150830235951

The value of a summoner spell is whatever you need it for. Summoner spells in general are situational.

Not very specific either. Tons of people will hammer you with crowd control and your only way to survive would be to mitigate the damage with a heal. Except you can't cast heal. But you can cast barrier.

AND if the damage is so great that barrier won't help. Heal wouldn't help either. Heal only helps when you need to be healed. Barrier offers more clutch health at every level and it also gets off cooldown by 30 seconds. The only real trade potential is that slight movement speed boost but hopefully you are using it to get away and get healed rather than just heal or just chase or get away as that would be an waste of half of the spell.