User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Concept) Skjold, the Shield Warrior/@comment-5088437-20130121012304/@comment-1330314-20130124071012

Wouldn't turning into a bruiser reduce the amount of damage you could take, thus mitigating the effectiveness of the ult? Stacking raw health without investing into resistances would be an awful idea, if only because it'd be less effective at making Skjold tanky and wouldn't synergize as well with his abilities.

The point is also to taunt the ADC into hurting themselves. If he pops his ult, stay the hell away from him, same as with. If he does severely disrupt the enemy team then hooray, he initiated properly. If he didn't, then he's more of a pushover than any other tank. You could just as well CC him (though you'd stun yourself), which'd hurt Skjold a lot more than it'd hurt you. Regarding CC reflection I intended it to be part of the ult, though I should scale it with the damage reflection.