Just title. Inflicts Grievous wounds. An enemy with lifesteal can likely heal more than the bonus damage dominik's would give you. An enemy with lifesteal, visage, and a healer definitely will.
Buy dominik's if the enemy team has tanks with no healing. Buy Mortal Reminder otherwise. AP allies can't provide much help with Morello if the enemy is never below 40% HP to begin with.
Toastersaot6 votes
main here, can confirm, that item is the cancer that kills AIDS.
The Ecdysiast1 votesThat's why Vlad has such a good, safe early game. The champion who really gets screwed by it is Swain, who doesn't have lane phase healing until the lane phase is almost over, and even that is at a high mana cost.
Elkington VI1 votesGrievous wounds screws over every sustain champ that doesn't deal burst damage. Unless they're fed it pretty much turns them into a free kill. I may be alone in this, but for how hard it counters some champions, GW shouldn't be allowed to be on a good item. The person purchasing GW should have to make a sacrifice in their build for it, like they did in the past (i.e. old Executioner's Calling/Morello's Evil Tome).
CannabisOverlord2 votesThis^, "just buy morellos and well be fine in teamfights" no, they have to be almost dead. vs mortal reminders immediate grievous wounds
The Ecdysiast1 votesYeah. And if the enemy you need the GW passive for is already fed, there's not a chance in hell they'll ever get below 40% health anyway-- especially if their support is a healer.
FalconPawwwwnch2 votesMortal Reminder is probably broken tbh
The grevious wounds fucks over a lot of non-tanks which defeats the purpose of the item (supposed to be good vs tanks)
It screws over anybody with lifesteal/healing/sustain which includes tanks, bruisers, adcs, supports, pretty much everybody except some mages, as even vlad/swain getfkd
The Ecdysiast1 votesAdmittedly, the grievous wounds shouldn't be on an armor-ignoring item. It should just be an AD item, as Dominik's does exist for the purpose of killing tanks with no healing.
Glîtchy1 votesI think 45% bonus armor pen + grievous wound on the same item is a bit broken as it makes champs who are countered by 
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no longer countered by them.
The Ecdysiast1 votesI agree it shouldn't be on a penetration item, but champions who are countered by those champions specifically need all the help they can get. In all cases against those 5, it's a hard counter.
6Sfool1 votesSuch cancer, but you use what you have. I feel dirty whenever I buy it.
Bird Brains1 votesI just think they should buff LDR. MorReminder just completely outclasses it 80% of the time (Don't Quote me)
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The Ecdysiast1 votesThe 15% bonus damage only happens against tanks, and you can't assassinate tanks. Even the assassin should get Mortal because their target is supposed to be the enemy ADC-- who now buys Bork because it's viable again.
FinalFlare1 votesTo be honest I feel LDR is generally better than Mortal Reminder, only time grievous wounds is useful is against hype self healing champs and super fed aa-centric ad champs. Grievous wounds is very situationally useful against champs that self-heal for butt loads, and not every add prefers life steal, and even if they do it's only worth it if they are fed. You are more likely able to use LDR passive than grievous wounds simply because it only affects self-heals and does nothing to outside heal sources like Soraka heal.
Edit: wait sorry looked at the change log and seems I missed the 6.9 change to grievous wounds. Either way both do their jobs as intended LDR for tanks, and Mortal Reminder for heavy sustain.
The Ecdysiast1 votesTthe 15%-- and that's only a full 15% if you buy no defense at all-- isn't much unless the enemy has absolutely no source of healing whatsoever. But even if the only person with lifesteal is the enemy ADC with Bork, it'll still be better to buy Mortal Reminder because it's currently the only finished item in the game that can apply GW consistently. My point was that Morelly on your team's mage can't match up, since it doesn't actually have that passive 60% of the time.