i dont understand why it was removed.. i read the reasoning.. and just because it had a niche seems like a weak reason as well.
i miss it. please bring it back http://www.team-dignitas.net/uploads/tinymce/images/executionerscalling.png
Rozzeta3 votesAt least place it in ARAM. I'm tired of being an AD bruiser and our mage not buying Morellos against a team with 
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67chrome2 votesi dont understand why it was removed
It was terrible. Any possible scenario where it was a remotely good item there were better choices.
A 1.5 second duration on the healing debuff was the worst offender, pretty much obliterating the chance the debuff would be useful vs. 90% of the healing effects in-game. More than 550 range from Soraka? Useless. Just traded and you backed off? Useless. Healing potions? Useless. Life steal - useful, but you're better off countering that with armor or more life steal.
Which lead to it Ex Calling having the lowest purchase rate of any item in the game.
And by lowest, 
's augment: death was purchased more frequently.
One of Viktor's 4 Viktor-only items was purchased more frequently than Ex Calling. So was Rengar's Bonetooth necklace for that matter.
Having choice and variety is good, but Ex Calling was essentially always a false choice, adding unnecessary burden of knowledge to the game, an extra item to sort through that slows down the search for something useful, and clutter to the shop.
After 2 seasons of being like that: Riot just went with the less is more philosophy. They've removed better items before.
Yosuke Apperu1 votesThis also pigeonholed you into giving up flash or tp for ignite however if you were top lane. I honestly feel like it's dumb that they removed grevious wounds from every ad champ except for I believe varus.
HaIlMonitor2 votesI miss this item alot. I would build it on Yas, Ren, and some adc's when playing vs or .
ElBoob2 votesI miss back in the day when it gave crit chance and lifesteal. Could be pretty useful now on some champs(like Ashe).
KVbqbFsC8e1 votesIt wasn't even a niche item, nobody ever bought that.
Nilok1 votesWith so much less Grievous Wounds on champions, people may reconsider now.
RottedApples1 votesYou guys know that AP item that has grievous wounds, morello's nommy con. If that can be useful and bought on a fairly regular basis and it has grievous wounds then why couldn't executioners receive some buffs or something so it could be bought regularly and not be shit.
MLDzXnRRR1 votesI bought it only 1 time - it was vs Swain - I was Yi with TP. It did the work - I was able to towerdive him multiple times and he couldn't heal.
Shénzhì1 votesWe have enough items.
If they added a separate gametype that allowed countless unusual items, I'd be ok with it. [Black Market Game Type idea] For consistency reasons, adding more adverse effect items in normals and ranked is just going to debase an already disgruntled community, I believe.
1011001110001 votesNo, I want more items. There should never be a point where we're at even the slightest threat of having more champions than items.
Items provided more build diversity than anything else. The more items we have, the more derps we get to have.
1011001110001 votesI feel like part of the issue was that they were unwilling to give put this item into a build path, or even make a new item for it to build into. If ExCall built into a semi-decent niche late game item and wasn't stuck in this awkward mid-game stat limbo, more people would've been inclined to build it. It's the equivalent of building Brutalizer on Zed for the pen and cdr, but never building Youmuu's.
JFRANKSTA1 votesthat item was the biggest noob trap since t1 runes
Knight SoIaire 1 votesit was removed because it has a bad influence on ballance
grewious wounds is a counter mechanic that forces ballance to adapt in a way that you will need it
champions who are countered by gw need to be buffed to stay relative againts gw which means that those champions cant be stopped unless gw is applied
the easy fix is to remove gw and just ballance champions
A Miss Fortune1 votesIf Grevious Wounds was a common feature and Riot brought it back, champions like Vladimir and Mundo would be terrible and in any matchup they would have Grevious Wounds rushed against them. Forcing them to be buffed. In the case you don't get Grevious Wounds against them, they would be immortal.
Riot's removing Grevious Wounds because sustain champions and Grevious Wounds can't exist together in a healthy state.
IcyPepper1 votesKatarina tho
A Miss Fortune1 votesYEP, BECAUSE KATARINA DEFINNNITELYY NEEDS THAT IN HER KIT
Hinagiku331 votesKatarina only has it because her old W used to let her Q do full damage on each bounce and apply GW. Riot didn't want her poking with GW but didn't want to make it seem like her rework was ripping out all her utility (even though it kinda did) so they slapped it onto her ult where it would be the least disruptive.
It's probably going to go the next time Riot touches Kat
Ecodeath1 votesYES
Mob Psycho 1001 votesCouldve just reworked the item to build into something else, more useful.
Screw the crit, add like attack speed. Then build it into another item that would be useful later in the game.
