Talk:Braum/@comment-4068613-20140528011624/@comment-6281696-20140531143122

The difference in total shots blocked even during extended fights would be minimal, it'd still be considerably more effective to hold his shield up the entire durations in the correct direction. It's more a quality of life improvement than anything else.

The only reason the skill doesn't go on CD when it starts but when it ends is because a large number of skills in LoL can be interupted during the animation time by being stunned/killed/whatever and if things immeadiatly went on CD this would lead to a lot of wasted abilities just based on bad luck. Which is why most skills don't go on CD until the animation is finished. In Braum's case the animation is quite long which effectivly increases it's CD. His passive has the same issue with an added hidden CD, at lvl 18 theoreticly the stun only has a 6 second CD. On his own it effectivly has a 9 second CD, 10 if he misses his Q, if he doesn't have anyone to back him up or massive amounts of attackspeed. Basicly the CD on the tooltip just doesn't correspond with the actual CD, which is a bit silly.