Shield

Shields are not to be confused with similar effects like  Spell shield and visual shielding effects like Eclipse.

 A Shield is an addition of hit-points that absorbs damage in place of actual health. Note that  Shields are not considered health for health based effects, like Primordial Burst, Blade of the Ruined King or Death from Below, when calculating their effects. It may persist on the recipient to absorb a set amount of damage (shield strength) and/or until the duration runs out (shield duration). An active shield is indicated on the champion's overhead healthbar in a distinct color.

The unit's resistances (armor or magic resistance) will still mitigate the damage before being absorbed by shielding. The shield strength can be increased with some items and runes.

Shield types

• Normal shields: They absorb all types of damage (physical, magic and true), and appear grey.
• Magic shields: They only absorb magic damage, and appear purple.
• Physical shields: They only absorb physical damage, and appear orange.

Shield as scaling

Runes

• Shield Bash

Normal shields

Champion abilities

Ally-targeted

User only

Items

Summoner spells

• Barrier

Runes

• Overheal
• Summon Aery
• Guardian

Neutral buffs

• Mountain Dragon Soul

Magic shields

Ally-targeted

• Morgana's Black Shield

User only

Items

Runes

• Nullifying Orb

Physical shields

User only

• Camille's Adaptive Defenses

Increasing shield strength

Items

• Ardent Censer: +10% (Unique) heal and shield power.
• Forbidden Idol: +5% (Unique) heal and shield power.
• Mikael's Crucible: +20% (Unique) heal and shield power.
• Redemption: +10% (Unique) heal and shield power.
• Salvation: +10% (Unique) heal and shield power.
• Shurelya's Reverie: +10% (Unique) heal and shield power.

Runes

• Revitalize

Shield destruction

Some abilities can fully destroy any shield:

• Blitzcrank's Static Field
• Renekton's Ruthless Predator
• Execute effects ( Pyke's Death from Below, Urgot's Mercy, Aspect of the Dragon)