Talk:Spell vamp/@comment-5022584-20120416172844/@comment-5025602-20120417011648

It used to be that damaging a shield didn't give you any life from lifesteal/spellvamp but in patch 1.0.0.120 they changed it so that for almost every purpose shields act as normal health, meaning that now you do gain the life when you damage an absorption shield. See http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/V1.0.0.120