Why I Personally Do Not Like Devourer
This is just my reasoning for not liking devourer. Its pretty self explanatory so the post won't be too long. Devourer rewards you more for doing something you should already be doing. Farming. So if a jungler with devourer takes a camp and one without it takes a camp ultimately devourer is winning if it gets to the late game.
So the counter to devourer is to win early right? Yes. In fact, devourer has the counter play riot so desperately loves. Is it balanced..? You could argue either way. I've seen games where it's useless and games where it carries the team.
So why does everyone just hate hate HATE this item? I believe it is because of the way it makes you lose. No one faces a champ with sated devourer and goes "welp I got out played". No it always feels like "well i ran out of time to beat this champ" and that is why everyone does not like devourer. It doesn't feel like you're losing because you're bad it feels like you're losing because you just couldn't end the game fast enough. The pendelum has swung the other way just because the other team was able to hold out. Essentially, people feel like they're losing not because they are not as skilled as the enemy but because they're time limit to win the game simply ran out.
tl;dr Devourer rewards people for doing something they should already be doing and people hate this item because it feels like theyre playing against a clock, not that they are losing due to their skill.
P.S. personally I don't care for any farming mechanic like
and
but they at least are immobile while devourer can be put on to some very hard to kite champions.