User blog comment:Nhan-Fiction/The Game Needs a Shield-Destroying Item/@comment-8506165-20170321150507

I disagree. Some champions have loads of their power in their shielding abilities, and you really screw with their balance if you add in an item that removes or heavily limits their ability to leverage that power.

I mean, just off the top of my head..., , , , , , , ... It's noticeable that a lot of these are supports (or at the very least can be played there as well as other roles), and I don't think we really need to be giving people less incentive to play support by nerfing a whole swathe of them. Most of the non-support champions with decent shields, like Skarner, are barely seen in the current meta to boot, so I don't see why we should kick them when they're down.

Sure some shield champions are good right now, but I'd argue that those are individual balance cases. Some of the champs involved aren't even problems either, they're just good in the current meta. Lulu was kind of forgotten about until relatively recently, but she didn't get buffs to make her great all of a sudden, it just turns out she's kind of good in a meta where people tend to die in a few seconds.