Shield charge ability

[Grissum1]

Charge with your shield to do knockback. What makes this different from shield bash is you are putting yourself in a dangerous situation in exchange for an aggressive play. I think this would be good for offensive shield classes since all of the shield classes (except maybe shieldmaiden) are defensive in playstyle (shield bash pushes enemies back, but stays in the spot)

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[LimeeFox]

That's just shield bush with 1 extra step, but I didn't understand how you're putting yourself in a dangerous situation? Like, where's the catch? How is it that you're unsafe

 

[Grissum1]

That's just shield bush with 1 extra step, but I didn't understand how you're putting yourself in a dangerous situation? Like, where's the catch? How is it that you're unsafe

Because by charging in, you are going away from your team for a bit to disrupt the enemy backline by yourself. Teams are super essential, so just charging in by yourself against like 5 players to kill or disrupt an important backline (healer or archer) is a high-risk, high-reward playstyle.

Games like Overwatch/Marvel Rivals have a similar playstyle called "dive tanks," while Shield Bash would be considered an "anchor tank" if it were to exist there hypothetically.

Perhaps instead of a knockback, you just get damage to make it less similar. And probably give yourself resistance during the charge, since it is highly risky now that I think about it.