User blog comment:Grrrbear26/Executioner's Calling RIP.. I THINK NOT/@comment-25115166-20141219153957

I used to rush this item A LOT when I played against heavy sustain champs (Swain, Aatrox, Mundo, etc...) even on champions who did not benefit AT ALL from its stats (Wukong and Jayce, Kha when I still played him top)

And honestly? It performed very well.

Now I haven't played toplane in a loooong time outside of normals but I wonder how I'd handle certain matchups without it.

Grievous wounds IS necessary against some champs. You can't remove it from the game, it'd be basically admitting "Yeah you can't kill Mundo and Swain, and you can't outsustain Aatrox, and a Soraka lane will never be anything more than a boring farm-lane".