Now i wanted also earlier grivious wounds just for consistency and i wanted also just soem magicpen nerfed.
But i can see why early magic pen sucks on midlane. Lets jsut assume the named items are bought on the respective lanes Bot, Top, Mid.
Bot:
is good vs lifesteal which gets fairly bought lategame beside maybe
or
, but for these early Gw are mostly not worth. Now if a heavy heal support is there (probably just
) , you can try to get early
even if it sucks in the buildpathtiming.
Top:
is an okish item and
works good vs Champs like
or
, but they can outplay the debuff by simply not autoattackign you (unless you taunt them). Ofcourse that is easier for a Mundo who throws qs and has a free sunfire as for a Trundle who can jsut autoattack you. Even if Bramble is not quite balanced and maybe should jsut be remvoed, you can kinda ingnore it if necesary.
Mid: With
heal gone in 9.3 where will just be
mostly. And i tell you what: Your suggested change would completly cripple Vlad and Swain.
Gw are based on the champ who holds it and does dmg. Vlads and Swaisn whole Laningphase is balanced around the soly fact that their enemys most likly go first
item,
and then
. If People could rush Grivious Wounds vs Vlad and Swain on Midlane, their whole championkit would be half as effective.
And no, the solution then would NOT just to buff their heals cause then we would jsut circlejerk around, make other Gw items far weaker in effect and should wonder why we did your suggestion in the first place.
Of all lanes Midlane may have the lowest number of sustainc ases, but they are the strongest dependent on that. Like Swain falsl super late off and Vlad is also just decent late.