Spell shield

Note: Not to be confused with magic shield.

General

Sivir protecting herself with Spell Shield.

The health bar usually has this purple frame to indicate the Spell Shield status.

A spell shield refers to one of several effects that have the capacity to negate hostile abilities from applying to the recipient.

• Spell shield negates effects coming from champion abilities, monsters, champion summoned units, items, and a select few runes but not summoner spells and persistent effects from AoE DoT and passive DoT effects unless otherwise stated.
• The shielding can vary per case with other included mechanisms such as on-hit effects and subsequent targeting ( Bouncing).
• Abilities applying multiple instances of damage (e.g. Boomerang Blade, Blooming Burst, Unleashed Power) will have a single instance of their damage prevented.
• Some abilities that have already applied onto the target (e.g. Death Mark, Sleepy Trouble Bubble, Umbral Trespass) do not get blocked.
• Some empowered basic attacks will also trigger spell shield (e.g. Chomp, Power Fist, Ruthless Predator) but the damage being blocked, either total, bonus, or none, is case by case.

Single ability

The following will block a single enemy ability or spell:

Champion abilities

• Sivir's Spell Shield
• Nocturne's Shroud of Darkness

Items

• Banshee's Veil
• Edge of Night

Notes

• The following items will be blocked by spell shield:
  • Everfrost
  • Galeforce
  • Luden's Tempest
  • Prowler's Claw
  • Redemption
• The following summoner spells will be blocked by spell shield:
  • Challenging Smite
  • Chilling Smite
• Arcane Comet is the only rune that is blocked by spell shield.
• Spell shields granted by abilities take priority over spell shields granted by items.
• Multiple active spell shields over a single unit will break simultaneously if the triggering hostile ability does not apply a crowd control effect.
• Spell shield takes priority over damage shields, crowd control immunity, displacement immunity, and slow immunity.
• Terrain displacing abilities (e.g. Crystallize, Pillar of Ice, Weaver's Wall) cannot be blocked.
• Dragons' attacks can be blocked, but their knock back cannot.
• Rift Herald's abilities can be blocked, but not her basic attacks.
• Baron Nashor's abilities can be blocked, but not his passives and basic attacks.

Patch History

Unknown patch

• Spell shield no longer blocks multiple hostile abilities if they struck at the same time the shield breaks. However, all hits will still be blocked if they come from the same ability (i.e multiple Azir's Soldier hits; Illaoi's Tentacle slams).

Alpha Week 2

• Added with the release of Sivir.

Gameplay Elements