Talk:Colossal Tridon/@comment-213.105.44.157-20150421165751/@comment-73.183.221.78-20150423230007

Mainly due to the Gravion fiasco in Lugina's Trial. Basically what happens is if your units have the earth shield on them and Gravion uses his ultimate attack those units will take more damage and will die even if you have them all guard AND mitiagtion up. The Earth Shield is kinda wonky in for some reason if the unit with the earth shield were to guard, the game for some reason register that they actually guarded at all and you ended up taking the full damage. Mitigation skills still work under the Earth shield like Shera or Dervs but guard for some reason doesnt. Another reason is that the earth shield has its own defense and element that will override your units when they have it on so with those up on something like a fire unit, not only will they not be able to resist the earth element attack, they will also take alot more damage due to the low defense of the earth shield until the attack ends. Earth shield is powerful since it gives you more effective hp to tank with but it can backfire on you in some situations