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It currently also has an AP ratio.

Thanks! Really glad you enjoyed reading this. Before I worked at Riot, when I was studying game design, I loved reading stuff like Zileas's List of Game Design Anti-Patterns and they were a big part of why I wanted to come work here.

Thanks for the comment. What you're saying about the need to constantly keep the mark up is exactly what we're trying to address with our further iterations on this. On the counterplay question a lot of how we think about that is also the value of the shield. I didn't mention numbers on that here (because of how much the actual play pattern is still under iteration), but that's a big part of the tools we have for ensuring that people who play against this don't feel too stifled by it.

On your off-topic question: I'm not sure I understand it? There are definitely a lot of non-keystone runes that have strong synergies between them, even across the different paths -- if that's the kind of stacking you mean. If you mean individual runes that involve specific stacking mechanics, we've already announced Relentless Hunter, Ingenious Hunter, and Ravenous Hunter, three Domination runes that all work off of a stacks that you gain when getting kills or assists on enemy champions.

Yes.

Keystone Runes (like this one) are more like masteries. But you also get 5 non-keystone runes in each build and a lot of those are much more stat-oriented. If you look at some of our previous posts you can see some examples of these more stat-oriented Runes. For example, take a look at Stone Skin, Mirror Skin, and Discipline that we announced here.

Yup, the last version I described only procs off of damage from an enemy champion or "significant" damage from other enemy sources (think tower shot or dragon attack).

I'm glad you're excited! The dynamic you're describing about predictive play is very much one of the things we're still working on with this rune.

Riot Reinboom mentioned this on reddit but Zilean's passive is somewhat similar but the tech component was not reusable.

Hi beany,

Audio coordinator here! I'll doing some poking. :)

It's the same for everyone. If you're out of range and you right click on an ally you'll run into range and then apply the shield.

Mordekaiser mains have the best questions. :)

Nothing to announce yet but we're experimenting with runes in that space.

I didn't share the numbers because they're very much in progress (and highly likely to change with future iterations) but you're right it scales with bonus health.

In the last version described, there's a very brief travel time between when you click and when the shield turns on (watch for the small green particle that moves from Braum to Caitlin). After that there's a window of a few seconds where any damage from enemy champions to Cailtlyn would trigger the shield.

There was an early version I mentioned in the post where the champion with Guardian Soul actually channeled briefly before applying the shield. The idea there was they could cancel the channel by moving if they hadn't actually meant to apply their shield. But we found that having to wait made the whole thing feel less responsive and ending up in repeated short channels disrupted your normal free movement around.

Thanks for the update, would love to see it if you do capture a case that's a self ult with death during it.

Useability's not perfect on the ult which does lead to the 'I though I ulted myself' cases cropping up. If you're not using self cast (Alt+R by default) that can help a help with avoiding miscasts. If you are having Self or Smart cast on can also be problematic with this spell, so would just use regular smart cast if so.