User blog comment:Grrrbear26/Executioner's Calling RIP.. I THINK NOT/@comment-24090792-20141219225319/@comment-25003900-20141220071016

My problem with the removal of Grevious wounds is it makes Champions like Soraka, Sona, staples of the game, endless banning rate every game, They disappear. At least with grevious wounds people who like those champions will be able to play them, Uncounterable heals are just so incredibly toxic to the game. Honestly I see it in ARAMs frequently. One team has Sona, or Soraka, that team wins end of story. Why? Because of exactly what you said, the hard countering is next to impossible because you always have 4 other champions smacking you in the face trying to protect the healer, and all it becomes is, hey I have sustain so I win because I outsustain you and like water eroding a cliffside eventually take down your towers. Bot lane becomes entirely a farm lane, like it already frequently does. Kill lanes are irrelevant against a Soraka worth half her weight in salt. Additionally Vladimir and Swain are about the only top laners that will exist, except they'll hit the ban list too because they just sustain away any poke you give them.

It's the exact reason I main mid lane now. Ahri and Akali are the only frequently played midlaners with any real built in sustain, as I don't count Fiddle as a common mid laner.

I just personally feel that Soraka gained far too much power from her rework and is overall just a toxic champion now. Top lane about to go down? Great my ult heals you for 150% of what it normally would if you're below 40%, now my top laner wins. To put this in perspective, Soraka's base health at level 6 is 835 and the ult's base with the additional healing percentage is 225, that comes out to roughly 27% of her health that she heals back. Are you kidding me? Don't even get me started on factoring in the AP ratio, or if someone happens to have spirit visage. Plus it's a global. I forgot it actually removes all grevious wounds on champions anyway so they ALWAYS get the full effect of the heal. Hard counter enough for ya?

Sorry this reply became ranty, but there's a reason for Grevious wounds, if you played some matches on SR with a Soraka in the game, you'd understand the problem.