Braum and Sated Devourer

Blue Collar Bear·Jul 16, 2015·2 votes·1,535 views

I'd like to invite you to, uh, look at this game.

9 Comments

GundayMondayJul 16, 20152 votes

LOL, how?

He might work better as a support on a team with a devourer jungler (for that passive), just because it should be pretty painful to get 30 stacks. That game is amazing though, nice work.

Blue Collar BearJul 16, 20151 votes

Perhaps he would, but Braum jungle is something I've done since season 4 with Feral Flare. He has a surprising amount of sustained damage output. I got 30 stacks pretty easily. It only took me about 14/15 minutes in, since we got both dragons. I was also able to solo anyone on their team at about 20m into the game, and I got at least two triple kills that I can remember.

This was also a 4v5.

GundayMondayJul 16, 20151 votes

Legit. How do you handle the early clear? Honestly curious, want to try this out. Wouldn't he be better as a cinderhulk jungler since his Q scales with HP?

Blue Collar BearJul 17, 20153 votes

You can run him 21/9 or 9/21 in the jungle. Both have their strong points. Personally, I take 9/21 with scaling armor / mr runes with the rest being full attack speed. The idea behind Braum jungle with Devourer is that he has a lot of on-hit magic damage, and you can easily stack that up to become a front line bruiser that sticks easily to targets. His passive has an insane amount of magic damage, and by the fourth stack with a Wit's End, you can legitimately be dealing true damage to a squishy with Sorc Boots. The reason why I take Devourer over Cinderhulk is because with Devourer, your damage is all about auto attacking and proccing your passive. With Cinderhulk, your damage becomes more about landing your skillshot that scales off maximum health and being present in fights (i.e. less up front, sustained damage).

I personally forgo clearing early. I get my buffs or just my red, and I immediately head in for a gank. In that game, I went Krug - Red and then straight to mid for a summoner burn and kill. If you have to clear, take your E second. The damage reduction is no joke and with your passive, you really don't take as much damage as you'd think.

Feel free to keep discussing! I love talking about off meta picks like this.

GundayMondayJul 17, 20151 votes

Makes sense. Will try it out tonight. Thanks!

Blue Collar BearJul 18, 20151 votes

I had a few days of work and it took me a while to get back.

How was your game?

InsaneSamuraiJul 16, 20151 votes

I wanted to do that, but then realized it'd be outshined by the handful of much more broken devourer champs.

The sad part is this item allows some really cool things to be done, but the only way it is going to be balanced like this is if they start making it work differently on different champs.

Blue Collar BearJul 16, 20151 votes

That's why it was a situational pick.

ErockandrollJul 16, 20151 votes

Braum would probably work better along side Devourer, rather than with Devourer. The fact that Braum does not need to use all 4 stacks himself gives him good synergy with a sated champion.