Grievous Wounds Rework.

We need to update Grievous Wounds.

Shield meta is carrying the self-heal meta, and taking a swing at the burst meta. Of course, I'm okay with that. But when you have someone like Kai'sa or Ekko with a massive shield that you can just honestly call semi-invulnerability, it's adding on to the self-sustain of that champion. The Grievous Wounds items are supposed to stop self-sustain moves.

Now before you read on, you're probably gonna downvote this without reasoning because: "My main has a massive shield and I don't want them to be less powerful." If you read the whole thing, you'll understand what this is exactly instead of fussing.

So with that, here's my idea.

Grievous Wounds and 's Grievous Wounds are not the same. Thornmail and Ignite's Grievous Wounds will work just as they do now.

As for the other Grievous Wounds:

Grievous Wounds currently reduces all healing and regeneration received on that target by 40%.

It'll instead reduce self-healing, outgoing heals, shields and health regeneration by 50%, and rapidly decay to 15% after 1 second. Extended Grievous Wounds, like 's 3 seconds of it; will have a stronger effect. But this is a curved decay, meaning it'll never be above 50% after the first second.

Here's an example: Varus E's . Janna will shield Soraka. If Janna shields Soraka beforehand, the shield will be in full effect. If she shield directly after the attack, it'll be reduced by 50 - 15% depending on the time between that second she shields her. If remains in the area and shields her, it'll only be reduced by 15%.

Grievous Wounds will also deal 5% true damage to shields each time it's proc'd. ( Think old Irelia Rework passive, but heavily diminished. ) This effect is never strengthened no matter the item you have.

This makes DPS champions more useful in teamfights, as they can take out any shield in a maximum of 25 attacks. Meaning someone like is more effective against a Seraph's Embrace user or a squishy with a shield than a Burst Mage or High Damage champion.

Bonus Health is unaffected.

So for those earlier worrying about their Kai'sa ultimate, unless you casted it after Katarina's Death Lotus or against a full team of ADCs. You're safe.

...except from Urgot though.