You know, at some point it'd actually be good to do an entire sweep of what we want spell shields to affect and revise it to like.. respect that.

Although the single target effect doesn't actually solve much - mostly because of things like Karthus who.. doesn't actually deal single target effects.

I think I mentioned this earlier before but I think I completely invalidated Catalyst with Flask. Oops.

Well then you're playing poorly.

Next time on Hashinshin tells you you're playing poorly: Players argued old madreds was good on AD carries.

With Health being the new go to stat, is there going to be anything along the lines of buffing AP Burst mages? With almost everyone running around with 3-4k health, my 1600-2k burst damage isn't going to do anything when I have to wait 20 seconds for my ult (Leblanc). Leblanc is pretty much completely out of the game, but other burst mages with some AoE are only slightly better.

You don't have to be so mean about it. But yeah, LW and VS increase your damage output a lot more than they seem to, even against medium Armor targets.

AP champs get liandry's and AD champs get blade of the ruined king and say goodbye to the enemies HP.

That's like Hashinshin 101: nobody likes him, but he's not wrong.

It would be overpowered and there wouldn't be much counterplay, unless it had an incredibly long cooldown (we're talking like 2-3 minutes here).

As an aggressive poking support, i want to build catalyst early to eventually get Ohmwrecker, but the fact that flask and Philo exist derail me to better options.

The problem with burst mages is that Anivia is a burst mage. What can Leblanc possibly do other than launch nuclear warheads to compete with a mage who does similar damage on top of having support level utility?

And when leblanc DID launch nuclear warheads it wasn't very fun to fight.

Actually my point was that high dps champions that are easy to kill are much more of a priority target than low dps champions that are hard to kill. Building too tanky just tends to redirect all the damage to someone else instead, and tanky stats are useless when you do not actually get attacked.

People did learn their lesson during S1 and "don't focus the tank". Once you are so tanky (and deal so low dps) that you get ignored, building more defensively is pointless because it will only come into play when everyone else is dead.

But you did just nerf shields by a significant amount. Does this not affect balance? (Indirect Janna nerf Q_Q)

I'm sure there is a way to communicate this through the health bar somehow. Anything can be visually communicated, including Dota rupture and maledict.

Anyway I'm not getting paid for thinking about solutions (yet).

Why does the "just build a negatron cloak nab" argument work against Leblanc but "just buy armor nab" does not work against Talon?

Start off by enabling more ways to win the game than the standard 40 minute lane-gank-siege-teamfight-baron progression. Enable push teams, earlygame gank teams, lategame turtle teams etc like Dota. This creates asymmetric goals (one team wants to push and win early, the other wants to turtle and win late) and therefore more dimensions for champion variety.