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Grievous Wounds icon Grievous Wounds is a debuff that reduces all of a unit's Heal power icon healing and Health regeneration icon health regeneration received by 40%.

Sources[]

Champion abilities[]

Items[]

Summoner Spells[]

Notes[]

  • Hybrid resistances icon Shields are a way of temporarily adding health to a champion that is not reduced by Grievous Wounds.
  • A unit afflicted by Grievous Wounds has the icon to the right of them.
  • Grievous Wounds does not stack; the duration of the debuff will overlap on separate effects and refresh on the same effect.
Type Heal and shield power icon Heal and Shield Power Spirit Visage Spirit Visage Revitalize Revitalize* Grievous Wounds icon Grievous Wounds Serpent's Fang Serpent's Fang
Health regeneration icon Health regeneration No Yes No Yes No
Life steal icon Life steal No Yes Yes Yes No
Omnivamp icon Omnivamp No Yes Yes Yes No
Life steal icon Physical vamp No Yes Yes Yes No
Spell vamp icon Spell vamp No Yes Yes Yes No
Ravenous Hunter rune Drain effects Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Self heals Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Self shields Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Incoming heals No Yes Yes Yes No
Incoming shields No Yes Yes No Yes
Outgoing heals Yes No Yes No No
Outgoing shields Yes No Yes No No
Health icon Bonus health No No No No No


Strategy[]

  • Grievous Wounds is generally used to limit or minimize the healing, omnivamp, or Life steal icon life steal of one enemy champion ability such as Darius' Darius' Decimate Decimate, Renekton's Renekton's Cull the Meek Cull the Meek or Sylas' Sylas' Kingslayer Kingslayer. It can also weaken burst healing champions such as Aatrox Aatrox, Dr Dr. Mundo, Fiora Fiora, Swain Swain, Trundle Trundle, Vladimir Vladimir, Warwick Warwick, or Zac Zac.
    • Grievous Wounds isn't only useful against champions with in-built sustain. Some can build viable items or take runes that give them sustain, such as Ravenous Hydra Ravenous Hydra, Bloodthirster Bloodthirster, Conqueror Conqueror, or Legend: Bloodline Legend: Bloodline. Grievous Wounds is also useful against them. This is important to notice especially in situations where technically there are no champions with natural sustain on the enemy team, but they may own or have sources of bonus effects that would grant them sustain.
    • On the other hand, some champions only have sustain when out of combat. This includes Garen Garen, Tahm Kench Tahm Kench, and champions that build Warmog's Armor Warmog's Armor. Grievous Wounds is not effective against those champions (as the debuff usually doesn't last long enough for it to have effect on them); the most effective way to prevent them from healing is to force them to stay in combat.
    • It is important to note that Grievous Wounds also affects healing from outside sources instead of just self-healing. This is especially important against Soraka Soraka, which can use Astral Infusion Astral Infusion to out-sustain her enemies, even if her allies don't have sustain themselves.
  • Grievous Wounds is dispelled by Sion's Sion's Glory in Death Glory in Death, Revival icon resurrection effects, and Death death.

Trivia[]

Grievous Wounds indicator

Enhanced

Grievous Wounds indicator old

Standard

Patch History[]

V13.7
  • New Effect: All sources of the effect that are dependent on damage dealt now apply it even if the damage was completely mitigated by a shield.
V13.3
  • Removed: Enhanced effect.
    • All sources of the effect now apply it at 40% effectiveness.
V13.1b
  • Standard effect for items increased to 40% from 25%.
  • Removed: Enhanced effect for items at 40%.
V12.12
V12.11
  • Standard effect reduced to 25% from 30%.
  • Enhanced effect reduced to 40% from 50%.
V12.10
  • Standard effect reduced to 30% from 40%.
  • Enhanced effect reduced to 50% from 60%.
V11.18
V10.23
V9.14
V6.9
  • Now affects healing from all sources instead of self-healing.
V5.22
  • Now only affects self-healing from healing from all sources.
  • Healing reduction reduced to 40% from 50%.
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