Grievous Wounds option for AP champions

DracaNova·6/22/2016, 6:31:32 PM·47 votes·5,970 views

item 3165 costs 2900 and gives the unique passive "Dealing magic damage to an enemy champion below 35% health inflicts Grievous Wounds to them for 8 seconds." while item 3123 costs 800 and gives the unique passive "Physical damage inflicts Grievous Wounds on enemy champions for 3 seconds.". So lets take a look at these items based on their Grievous Wounds options side by side.

--------------------------------------------------------------------item 3165---------------------------item 3123 ---------------------------------------------Cost: -----------2900----------------------------800 ----Grievous Wounds duration: ----------8 seconds-------------------3 seconds Grievous Wounds Stipulation: ---------Below 35% HP------------None

It would be great if the item 1052 in item 3165 was a 800 gold Grievous Wounds item called "monograph of decay" or something and then the combine cost of item 3165 could be lowered by 365 gold. It really sucks if your playing an AP champion who does not use mana or a mage who does not want item 3165 but it is really your only option for Grievous Wounds.

84 Comments

Zorae426/22/2016, 8:02:17 PM21 votes

No. Grievous wounds should've been removed from the game so healing could actually be balanced properly. Rather than healing either being too strong unless grievous wounds is applied, or horribly weak when it is applied and then making champs that are dependent on healing useless.

Besides, the pool of champs that would use that is incredibly small. Most mages want Morellos. The ones that don't are either Tanky or do tons of burst dmg (and you don't really need grievous wounds if you're killing them before they have the ability to heal).

Hayaishi26/22/2016, 7:06:41 PM11 votes

Not every itemization option needs an exact counterpart.

Astôlfo6/22/2016, 9:34:13 PM7 votes

Well Executioner's Calling is a stupid item that should never have existed anyways.

SaltyKracka6/22/2016, 8:09:10 PM6 votes

Morellos is already built a majority of the time on mages. It doesn't need to be any stronger in this fashion.

SwiftKitten886/23/2016, 12:12:21 AM5 votes

item 3165 is actually a REALLY good item, but i would like the grievous wound to kick in a bit earlier than 35%.

sure you can kill a Swain or a DrMundo or keep the enemy ADC form leeching back to fell health if they are low.

but unless you ignite them at the start of the fight your not going to even GET people likeDrMundo or Swain low enough to even proc the grievous wounds.

Mandang06/22/2016, 10:04:53 PM3 votes

Anyone else think grievous wounds is an extremely binary stat that enables situations that either suck for one person or suck for the other one?

I'd much prefer Riot gave grievous wounds a redesign or at least offer it in smaller amounts (and require players to actually sacrifice something for such a counter stat. Everyone's already gonna build Morello anyway.)

It Hertz When IP6/23/2016, 1:33:06 AM3 votes

It's almost like Morellonomicon offers better and more useful core stats than Executioners. Oh, wait...