Grievous Wounds is a debuff that reduces all of a unit's healing and health regeneration received by 40%.
Sources[]
Champion abilities[]
- while under the effects of
Items[]
Summoner Spells[]
Notes[]
- 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 | * | Grievous Wounds | ||
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Health regeneration | |||||
Life steal | |||||
Omnivamp | |||||
Physical vamp | |||||
Spell vamp | |||||
Drain effects | |||||
Self heals | |||||
Self shields | |||||
Incoming heals | |||||
Incoming shields | |||||
Outgoing heals | |||||
Outgoing shields | |||||
Bonus health |
Strategy[]
- Grievous Wounds is generally used to limit or minimize the healing, omnivamp, or life steal of one enemy champion ability such as , or . It can also weaken burst healing champions such as , , , , , , , or .
- 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 , , , or . 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 , , and champions that build . 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 , which can use to out-sustain her enemies, even if her allies don't have sustain themselves.
- Grievous Wounds is dispelled by resurrection effects, and death. ,
Trivia[]
- can apply Grievous Wounds to large monsters.
during and are the only abilities that can apply Grievous Wounds to non-champions.
- Grievous Wounds had different indicators between its standard and enhanced application.
Patch History[]
- 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.
- Removed: Enhanced effect.
- All sources of the effect now apply it at 40% effectiveness.
- Standard effect for items increased to 40% from 25%.
- Removed: Enhanced effect for items at 40%.
- no longer clears Grievous Wounds.
- Standard effect reduced to 25% from 30%.
- Enhanced effect reduced to 40% from 50%.
- Standard effect reduced to 30% from 40%.
- Enhanced effect reduced to 50% from 60%.
- New source of Grievous Wounds:
- Grievous Wounds can now be cleared with:
- New sources of Grievous Wounds:
- Can now also apply a 60% healing debuff on:
- healing debuff increased to 60% from 40%.
- healing debuff increased to 60% from 40%.
- Now affects healing from all sources instead of self-healing.
- Now only affects self-healing from healing from all sources.
- Healing reduction reduced to 40% from 50%.