Talk:Zed/@comment-24035110-20150509135455/@comment-6281696-20150513175434

The ability details list it, but the actual tooltip doesn't. According to the tooltip damage reduction should influence it and shields might (depending on how exactly shields are viewed) as it says "damage dealt" not "the damage that zed would theoreticly do assuming the opponent has no defenses in any form whatsoever"

Anyway, it makes perfect sense that exhaust works this way, I just find it weird that they treat defenses so inconsistently. Rather expected exhaust to also be meaningless given how it treats other defenses... really everything I learn about this ability just makes me like it less and less...