AD item Grievious Wounds is probably an effort to keep Sated Devourer reasonable.

kJs·Oct 30, 2015·1 votes·455 views

Sated Master Yi and Xin Zhao are the two most overpowered Sated users in League right now, they need constant CC locking to take down which is just too much resource investment when you pair a Riven or a Fiora in the same team as that jungler Sated Xin or Yi.

It seems that Riot is trying to keep the badly designed item of Sated Devourer in the game by re-introducing Grevious Wounds for AD champions which should even out the Sated game. Wish they'd done that sooner.

Side note: Grevious Wounds should not be instant 50% healing reduction. Grevious Wounds could be a stack mechanic similar to Black Cleaver's passive so that you don't instantly over power champions designed wholly around healing such as Aatrox, Vladimir, Dr. Mundo and Soraka.

7 Comments

BluePolarizerOct 30, 20152 votes

Grievious wounds doesn't do shit to Yi or Xin. They'll just jump on you and evaporate you directly. That of course only works when your enemy team is filled with mindless vegetables, and against any team with some sort of peel, they get evaporated mid-leap. It only stops sustain tanks like Mundo and Vlad. Yay for tanks being even more useless.

Next meta: 4 marksmen + 1 bot lane support vs. 3 marksmen, 1 assassin/mage/mid support, 1 bot lane support.

kJsOct 30, 20151 votes

Ever seen a Yi with: item 3931 item 3153 item 3053 item 3742 item 3142 ?

He counters burst with Sterak's shield, under the shield he can quickly lifesteal. Mid game a Sated BotRK combo allows him to quickly delete fed carries. DMP for the massive slow massive health and decent armor.

Grievious will half that heal and make sure that his recovery after his CC chain is much much slower.

BluePolarizerOct 30, 20151 votes

yes, I have 200+ games on Yi all across plat from 1 to 5, with 65k champion mastery points. Yes, Yi is a mid game champ. No, late game he's not that good simply because he is melee, at least in my elo. Can he carry? Sure. But he can't just rush in 1v5. He doesn't even lifesteal that much without a Visage or BT. With that build he either evaporates the enemy carries in 3 seconds or dies trying. You don't have any resistances except 60 armor which is paper compared to late game ADC's damage.

kJsOct 30, 20151 votes

Same as non Sated Yi except he's got an extra 1100 health for durability.