Why doesn't grievous wound affect all heals?

Burnt Light·Feb 21, 2016·2 votes·354 views

I feel like this is the only thing that would be able to put a stop to Soraka's disgusting mindless healing that has been a prominent problem in bot lane and overall in team fights. It should be allowed to affect all healing.

But since everyone's opinions change from 'Soraka is OP" to "Soraka is the #1 perfect balanced champion in the whole game" on this board, at the very least put a specific description on grievous wound in-game that it only affects self-heals.

9 Comments

MisterHealYoGirlFeb 21, 20162 votes

The in-game tooltip for grievous wounds states that it reduces the effect of self-heals by 40%.

CrimsonCobra3Feb 21, 20162 votes

This makes sense to me: Grievous Wounds afflicts the champion attacked, not external champions, and therefore healing from external sources is unchanged.

It's more to stop excessive lifesteal or Mundo than nerf Soraka and other ally-heal champions.

GunpointFeb 21, 20161 votes

I'm fairly certain it does affect all heals.

MisterHealYoGirlFeb 21, 20161 votes

It was changed to only affect self-heals in the pre-season.

Burnt LightFeb 21, 20161 votes

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It was changed to only affect self-heals in the pre-season.

Why?

CrazedPorcupineFeb 21, 20161 votes

Because Riot wanted to change it. No reason other than Riot wanted to.

MisterHealYoGirlFeb 21, 20161 votes

I'm not certain. If I had to guess, I would say that it's due to the increased access through Mortal Reminder. However, I don't know the answer and I don't want to get into a debate about it.

Burnt LightFeb 21, 20161 votes