Spell Shield's Blocking Peculiarities

[quote=Biperspectival]Hi folks. I've been playing Sivir for a little while, and I had a couple of questions about how "spell shield" works. I've made a short summary of stuff it does and doesn't work for. [columns][nextcol width = 50] [nextcol width = 400][center]Blocks:[/center] [nextcol width = 100] [nextcol width = 50] [nextcol width = 400][center]Doesn't Block:[/center] [/columns] [columns][nextcol width = 50][icon=Primordial Burst size = 50] [nextcol width = 400][color=green]+[/color] Point and click abilities. [nextcol width = 100] [nextcol width = 50][icon=Deadly Venom size = 50] [nextcol width = 400][color=red]-[/color] Damage Over Time. [/columns] [columns][nextcol width = 50][icon=Light Binding size = 50] [nextcol width = 400][color=green]+[/color] Skillshots. These can be AoE or limited target. [nextcol width = 100] [nextcol width = 50][icon=Lucent Singularity size = 50] [nextcol width = 400][color=red]-[/color] Ground Effects. [/columns] [columns][nextcol width = 50][icon=Noxious Trap size = 50] [nextcol width = 400][color=green]+[/color] Mines/triggered abilities. [nextcol width = 100] [nextcol width = 50][icon=Assault and Battery size = 50] [nextcol width = 400][color=red]-[/color] It can't cancel active abilities. So, once Vi ults you, she'll go towards you, but you block her knockup. [/columns] [columns][nextcol width = 50][icon=Requiem size = 50] [nextcol width = 400][color=green]+[/color] The end of channeled abilities. [nextcol width = 100] [nextcol width = 50][center][icon=Starcall size = 50][/center] [nextcol width = 400][color=red]-[/color] In fact, it will still register you as "hit." That is, Leona will still dash towards with [[Zenith Blade]], and [[Starcall]] will still heal [[Soraka]]. However, you won't take damage or cc. [/columns] Is there any underlying theme here? Does it just block damage and cc, but any secondary effects go through? I'm kind of confused.[/quote]

[quote=LevasK][[Sivir]]'s [[Spell Shield]] blocks the first ability effect that hits her. DoTs do not get blocked, because, if they've already been applied, the ability has hit you, before the shield could stop it, the lingering status effect is already on you, so it's not an incoming ability. (You could view it as getting shot with an arrow and bleeding from the wound, if you raise your shield after you've already been shot, it's not really gonna stop the bleeding) Ground effects, well, affect the ground and not you, so it wouldn't make sense if you could block them, similar to terrain altering abilities like [[Cataclysm]], you can't really use E and walk past the wall, because it's not something that's trying to hit you. [[Vi]]'s [[Assault and Battery]] only locks onto you and then she, herself, moves to a location, thus none of this is directly affecting you, until the ultimate connects, which is when your [[Spell Shield]] will prevent the damage and the CC. (Similar to the shield and arrow example, you can think of this effect as the Archer taking aim, even if you raise your shield, it's not going to prevent him/her from aiming, however, it will block the arrow) The last example is pretty self explanatory, those abilities did connect with you, they just didn't apply their primary effects, since those got blocked, however, the conditions for the secondary effects were met.[/quote]

[quote=Biperspectival]Understood. Thank you.[/quote]