Talk:Sion/@comment-25532677-20150924170802/@comment-26001789-20150925070835

It takes WAY too much things to be up at once for the Shield to be even a remote consideration. You have to first take into account that the shield scales poorly on ranks and it needs you to be at a high ammount of HP to survive those three seconds of preparation. Then, you have to guess how much damage it will be worth considering it's poor damage numbers purely on how much tankier your opponent would get. Technically, if you could get away with rushing a Frozen Heart and your opponent would base his build purely on stacking defensive items, then yes, Shield would be a better option since he would do so little damage to you and you would be returning a lot of damage to him but, most of the time, the "reliable" damage from your Smash will be better since it doesn't have a scaling mana cost and it takes into account your total AD, a stat you can surely base around your damage easily instead of a situational thing such as an enemy %Max HP value.