Grievous Wounds

Apparently a new AD Grievous Wounds item is in the works.

Yes considering riot removed a few without replacements over the years

If there is a way to make the mechanic fun, interesting and relevant on its own without forcing champions to pick Grievous Wounds every time there's a champion with sustain on the enemy team, then yes, it would be worth adding as an item, but I'm not sure if that's at all possible. So far, Grievous Wounds has only been used to add power to champion kits without giving them any additional gameplay, and tends to be so specific and hard a counter that it either achieves little to no visible effect or shuts down certain champions way too hard.

People typically bring up GW as a means of keeping at bay champions like , and , but one of the reasons why their sustain feels so OP, aside from being poorly gated (the barriers to their use aren't very impactful), is that their self-healing needs to be OP for it to survive Grievous Wounds, which cuts it in half and seriously devalues one of their core sources of power. To me, a mechanic that specifically counters healing makes about as much sense as a mechanic that specifically counters shields, or a mechanic that bypasses immunities, in that it feels far too specific to have a visible effect on most champions (devaluing anything also doesn't make for the best visibility), but hurts way too much when it does.