TFW people think grevious wounds counters Soraka

Aír·Apr 12, 2016·22 votes·1,741 views

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Ah, I love how near nobody understands that grevious wounds only affect self-healing. :D

11 Comments

darkmatchwaldoApr 12, 201612 votes

God i wish they would just revert that change. Even as an adamant Soraka player it just feels plain unfair now...

And with what they've done to her Q i just don't care anymore. I based my entire Soraka style around getting really good at landing perfect Q's and getting the huge damage on ADC's. They've taken all the "skill" out of her skillshot and taken away the best part of the spell...the 150% damage multiplier.

/endrant

Mama SorakaApr 12, 20162 votes

I understand this makes sense from the standpoint of the enemy "I want this character to be healed less so I'll ignite them" or whatever you use to apply grievous wounds, w/e. But as somebody who enjoys playing the healer archetype I feel like my healing should be reliant on my ability to position myself and stay out of danger while staying close enough to have an effect on the fight.

If we look for a replacement for the outside healing reduction that was on grievous wounds elsewhere I notice that exhaust has a 40% reduction to skill and auto attack damage on it, and its also frequently taken by bot lane supports, the champions that would go against Soraka. So why not have the -40% reduction also apply to her outgoing heals? It makes sense when you think about it: -40% Ability effectiveness should really cover healing and I was positioned poorly and got exhausted now I can't help my allies anymore.

What do you think about this alternative to reverting GW?

MetalrichdogApr 12, 20162 votes

Riot is actually contemplating reverting the changes to grievous wounds. http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/Ao3FXjT9-grievious-wounds?comment=0000

Right now we're looking at whether we should revert Grievous Wounds to its old functionality as part of the mid-season patch. Our original hope was that making healing output more consistent for extremely healing focused champions would make them easier to balance. That hasn't worked as well as desired however. As a result we're testing going back to GW affecting all healing to restore the partial safety valve that old GW gave when champs that heal others got out of line. -Meddler

Beached ManateeApr 12, 20162 votes

But if you put grievous wounds on soraka, she runs out of heals because she can't get her health back...

VerdadeApr 12, 20163 votes

But if you put grievous wounds on soraka, she's already dead because you're ADC with 3 other damage items ;)

R2D20Apr 12, 20162 votes

but it does counter all the healing from her Q... and everyone knows you target the Raka first...

Void NargacugaApr 12, 20161 votes

This is mine: http://45.media.tumblr.com/91368fa514865c640fbee3254096fda9/tumblr_mvzmf9f8121sq8cgro1_500.gif

Sahn UzalApr 12, 20161 votes

I feel like I'm losing my mind because of people like that... https://media.giphy.com/media/3oEdv01DMzMFyvn96M/giphy.gif summoner 31

DarkxanderApr 12, 20161 votes

Love seeing idiots do that while i am on my 5th mastery Soraka xD

SelflessTeammateApr 12, 20161 votes

One can't really blame another for believing that, though. I did, too, at first, but that's because it's not really clear about the difference between healing and self-healing. It would be an easy mistake to think it means Soraka's target can't heal for as much if applied, which is the case of simply "healing", and it reduces heals directed at them. Self-healing is a confusing term in itself, because that could be interpreted to mean the target's own capacity to heal at all.

Having said that, I wouldn't blame someone for not realizing it includes not functioning on the heal's target, and it doesn't work on the healer, either. It doesn't specify that it's the source of the heal, as opposed to the target of the heal.

CanidaeApr 13, 20161 votes

It's not like old Grievous Wounds caused much of an issue for Soraka in practical use.

-most people don't build it -most ppl who built it got it for high hp regen units (particularly tanks) -most ppl (or a significant amount....don't really trust the general playerbase) afflicted by grievous wound knew to disengage before dying