User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Concept) Skjold, the Shield Warrior/@comment-5088437-20130121012304/@comment-5088437-20130125034157

I read back thru, and I didn't see it anywhere. However, now that I know this, that actually makes things even worse.

Asking an entire team that uses alot of AoE to basically sit there and twiddle their thumbs because Skjold is out front and hasn't burned his ult yet is basically asking them to run away from the fight. A team consisting of Rammus, Miss Fortune, Garen, and Karthus would be at a massive disadvantage since they couldn't use their most potent abilities without Skjold's player just pressing R and making them eat their own damage in droves.

There's disruption and then there's outright denial. This ability falls under the latter catagory. At that point, they'd have to either focus the tank and save AoE until after, or try and bait out the ultimate, which just gives Skjold's team time to tear them apart. You have to choose between losing one way or losing another way. Joy of joys.

We've already gone over my stand on spell reflections, but even ignoring that part of the passive, 75% damage return is astronomical. If Miss Fortune uses her ultimate, she'll deal herself ~1500 damage in 2 seconds. If you taunt Tryndamere into attacking you, he could easily swing for 770 damage crits three-four times in two seconds, effectively killing him in the taunt duration. Most other ADCs would take near fatal damage in those two taunts, especially combined with damage taken from the abilities used to deliver the taunt. With the cooldown at 40% CDR of 75 seconds, it would be up next team fight for a rinse, repeat.

Look at many carry builds, they have PD, IE, BT, Zerkers Boots, and LW with a survival item. That's alot of attack speed, crit, and damage. Most could crank out ~700 faster than a second attack speed. Most of them won't have too much more than 2000 health, either. Press R, Press Q, Auto Attack, Press Q again. Dead Carry. 4v5 mode. You'd even have time left over to use W to displace the team between Q hits on the carry.

Its just too much of a return. Rammus only returns like 55+10% of armor, so maybe like 85-90 damage tops per hit? Heck, all that is without Thornmail. With Thornmail on, no carry could survive Skjold's R.