User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Concept) Skjold, the Shield Warrior/@comment-5088437-20130119205028/@comment-5088437-20130119230722

I considered using Q to initiate and holding W & R for such a purpose. However, that means he doesn't have much in the way of disruption. A single dive in + silence for only one target. If the enemy team is stupid enough to focus attention onto you when you then can only auto attack while the rest of your team is near, they deserve to lose, but not because of the abilities this guy has.

On the note of his E, I had covered that in my full post, but instead I'll just put this out piecemeal. First of all, I didn't read it as a stationary barrier detached from the champion. It reads more like a defensive ability that stays with the champion, I.E. a shield wall.

On the technical side, I don't know how workable this ability is. Being that alot of champion abilities are single targeted abilities, I'm not sure their actual flight path matters beyond reducing BoK. Its just an animation.

This ability would only be useful against Skill Shots and Linear Dashes. In that regard it would be closer to something like Anivia's wall combined with the only source of denial in the game. There's the other matter of how potent it would be. Could it block Ashe's arrow & Ezreal's Trueshot Barrage? How about Jarvan's spear pull?

Honestly, I think its far too situational, I don't see how, with no rage, you could use it to defend your team. You'd have to initiate, land your Q, then land your follow up Q, then slap the ability down. By this point, the fight has started and you'd have a hard time using it to defend anyone considering its static while the fight wouldn't be.

I'll cover other abilities and my concerns with them in a bit, including the R.