More Grievous Wounds Itemization Options NEEDED
All too often we see these David vs. Goliath 1v1s go down and somehow David ends up winning. Why does he win? Because he's stacked lifesteal to the point where no single champion could ever hope to win the 1v1 (I think David's real name might be Fiora..)
When you look at options for applying grievous wounds we have executioners calling which ONLY builds into a mortal reminder. For any champion who has a black cleaver as part of their core build, building this item would be wasteful. Sometimes you end up just buying the executioners calling, but later on end up selling it (Losing gold in the process) so that you can free up space for a more productive item in the late game. Additionally, purchasing it at 800 gold for a mere 15 damage often delays critical item buys later and leaves you constantly behind in lane to counter something that is a normal part of other champions build path--life steal. Actually turning the executioners calling into a mortal reminder really only fits a few select champions that aren't ADCs and even those champions would more than likely be at an overall deficit at full build compared to other options just to counter that one champion who is life stealing faster than they're taking damage.
AP champions have it even worse. They have no interim item that builds into their Grievous Wounds item, Morellonomicon. Even then, they can only apply grevious wounds to champions that are BELOW 40% health. This makes laning agiast a Vlad damn near impossible for most straight mages.
We can extend this to other healing effects and how over powered they often seem. One champion should come to mind here: Soraka. There is nothing worse that when you're about to kill someone and you're at near full health than when a Soraka shows up a fraction of a second before the killing blow just to start laying down heals that you can't get past and you end up dying because of it.
Oh lets not forget Yasuo getting free crit which in essence leads to free lifesteal and ALSO opens up the option to itemize for EXTRA lifesteal because he doesn't need to buy the two extra crit items he'd need to hit 100% crit chance. This is the essence of the toxicity of a fed Yasuo. You can't beat his lifesteal. There are no ways to come back sometimes in these scenarios. You want a balance idea for Yasuo??? Half his effective lifesteal on crits.
Darius's on kit lifesteal, same issue but at least his has some counter play (if you want to call getting close enough to Darius to smell his pit odor a real "counterplay" option in the scenario where you know you can't get away from his decimate). This i don't mind as much because if he scales at a somewhat normal rate (aka doesnt get massively ahead before people even have the chance to finish their boots) then you have options.
And, lets not forget the most ridiculous scenario: ADCs going 1v1 and sometimes even 1v2 or 1v3 (I'm looking at you, you whiny Vayne mains out there) champions that they shouldn't be able to beat. The entire idea behind the ADC role is that they're supposed to be a glass cannon. Well sometimes those glass cannons can suck the life out of you at such a rate that running into them is like running into a death bush by the baron pit.
The ability to consistently life steal and heal at those rates/quantities is an extremely toxic game element with the current extremely limited and poor options to counter it for many champions. Some people might say take ignite, but that's only good for an even trade once every 5 minutes. By the time your second ignite is up, you've been so bullied by these lifesteal elements in lanes where its prevalent that the next ignite isn't going to help you.
The options for counterplay to stacking lifesteal right now are Terrible and need to be addressed, preferably before the start of season 7. Thanks.
PS- While we're on the topic of Vayne and Darius, Rito, you need to get rid of all True damage in the game aside from red buff and ignite. Its a toxic game element with zero counterplay by definition especially when you consider that you can throw %health damage in there through other items so you can't even health stack to survive.
allows squishies to facetank.
There are already tons of champions with healing in their kits that are tier 3.
Just because ADCs are broken and RIOT doesn't want to do anything, doesn't mean we have to nerf all the lifesteal of add more useless GW items that just fk Aatrox, Mundo, WW, Swain, the healing supports etc.