User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Concept) Skjold, the Shield Warrior/@comment-5088437-20130121012315/@comment-5088437-20130125024659

The major difference here is that a Spell Shield negates any spell effect for that champion only. This would negate Ez's/Nami's ultimate for every champion behind it. That's a massive difference. Also, avoiding it is implied that you'd put it down preemptively instead of as a response. There's plenty of wind up animation before Ez's ult goes off to slap that wall down and nullify it completely.

Also, to be clear, the 'aesthetics' point wasn't about spell reflects on a shield wielding character. I dislike spell reflects in general because they are very difficult to balance. Used at the right time, it creates immense frustration, even more so than a spell shield.

I honestly only threw this post up about the E to communicate what I thought on it and for the sake of completeness. I knew we weren't going to agree on it. I also realize, from your defintion of the ability, it wouldn't reflect Miss Fortune's ultimate, so that was an error in the initial post.