Bulwark, Shen's unique TFT Set 17 trait

Bulwark

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Description

Summon a placeable relic. At the start of combat, it grants adjacent allies a 10% max Health shield and 10% Attack Speed.

Champions

  • Reality Tear
    Passive: On cast, attacks gain Max Health Max HealthAbility Power stacking bonus magic damage. Starting from the third cast, gain true damage instead.
    
    Active: Gain 200 / 250 / 3456 Max HealthAbility Power Shield for 3 seconds, then slice open a rift on the largest group of champions dealing the Passive's bonus damage to all enemies within. Enemies have their Attack Speed slowed by 50 / 50 / 99% while allies within gain 80 / 80 / 999% Attack Speed, both rapidly decaying over 3 seconds.

Bulwark enables

  • Bonus Attack Speed makes a unit attack more often per second, which means more auto-attack damage and faster mana generation toward the next ability cast. Some carries scale beyond that — their ability itself fires more hits when they have more Attack Speed (e.g., Bel'Veth's slash count, Jinx's rocket count). Stacking AS items and traits on these units compounds: faster autos, faster casts, and bigger casts.

  • Grants temporary HP that absorbs damage before the unit's real Health is touched.

  • Adds a unit to the field — temporary or permanent. Covers ability summons (pets and minions like Fizz's Mega Meeps), trait-spawned minions and relics (Shepherd's Bia and Bayin, Bulwark's placeable relic, Primordian Swarmlings), resurrect/revive of fallen allies, and bench-to-field arrivals (the Thresh's Lantern artifact flings a benched unit onto the board). Summon-buff augments scale these. Bench refers to expanding bench slots, not the act of summoning; clone refers to making an exact copy of an existing unit, not summoning a new entity.