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I honestly don't think Sated Devourer is that broken

Lil Soybean·7/11/2015, 12:58:48 AM·108 votes·11,105 views

I think it's just a matter of, "Out with the old, in with the new!! Didn't you hear?! Tanks are dead!!!" So people stop playing tanks and switch to whatever the new item is.

For example. If a Yi is facerolling your team for the first 15 minutes of the game, don't come complain about Sated Devourer being broken on the forums -

Because you're being killed by a champion before their devourer is even sated yet.

It's confirmation bias. You hear "Sated is OP!!!" So if you see a Yi win ever, you suddenly confirm in your mind; "Yep, Sated must be broken." The irony is that half the time, they're snowballing before they even Satiate their devourer. Maybe he was just strong to begin with?

Another irony is that if you assume "lol tanks are dead!!" and thus play only squishies, then of course sated will hit hard on you. No, they did not suddenly make Maokai any less capable of soaking tons of damage. Or plenty of other tanks. They can still get Frozen Heart, Randuins Omen, & Thornmail and make life tough for auto-attackers.

But people seem to assume "TANKS ARE DEAD ROLL OUT THE SQUISHIES!!!! WTF A MASTER YI KILLED ME, AS AN IMMOBILE SQUISHY, WITH AN INCOMPLETE DEVOURER?!?!!?!! SATED IS BROKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!"

...lol

Disclaimer: I might be completely wrong!

216 Comments

Neclord7/11/2015, 1:04:20 AM25 votes

yi kills the immobile squishies because he's 2 shot the frontline tanks with 1.5k true damage.

Hissael7/11/2015, 1:53:00 AM19 votes

Although Yi is the most common case, it is not just about him. The item is too OP and stupidly broken. I have seen a Diana wining a 4 v 5 game single handedly after completing it. Their team was pretty behind but it didn't matter cause the only thing she needed to do was to go in kill or burst 3 or 4 of us before dying and her team and she just collected the kills. Same goes for many other champs. Kayle is a god when she hits sated, udyr can destroy all the towers in a lane with just 1 wave of minions. Even with hard cc, you can't do anything to many of them. Altough Yi maybe the most abusing one, the problem is not starts and ends with him. Every game I played since the release is between a sated jungler vs another sated, the other enhancements are useless. Also it takes away importance of objectives. Drag is meaningless after getting sated, and it just becomes a game to hunt for fun cause it doesn't help with anything.

Addition to those problems, ganging became something useless for junglers. I literally don't get any single gang in 4 out of 5 matches, and no other lane is in different condition. Also this item provokes lane smiting for some champs, rather than ceasing it. It takes 15-20 min to get sated for junglers, and it takes extra 3-7 minutes for the other smiter to get sated, and with 1 sated smiter who is just pushing the enemy into base, other one has a lot of free camps to clear. After getting 2 sateds, nothing stops them, they tear down every champ, tower, inhib in less than 5 secs.

People say if you let jungler become salted, it s your fault, however it is nearly impossible to deny the enemy jungler from all of his camps, crabs and from dragon. And even though you do it, he can still avoid team fights and farm up while you are fighting and can get sated and start ripping your team apart. It is okay to play the game with a split pushing hero or with a pick up comp, however both of the possibilities should be as powerful as the other one. Right now sated is thousand acres above all the other composition possibilities. No matter what you do, you can't win the game if you don't have a jungler with devour. This item is completely broken and needs to be removed with a hotfix as soon as possible

TheI3igDaddy7/11/2015, 1:56:10 AM18 votes

It's too synergetic with Blade of the Broken King, and of course the champs you see powerfarming the jungle love buying these two items.

Warwick MasterYi Shyvana

Because it's totally fun getting slammed by magic damage, double on-hits, and %health physical damage, right?

Lugg7/11/2015, 3:29:35 AM17 votes

When a Master Yi is doing more true damage than your ADC is doing total damage, there's a problem.

Incognonymous7/11/2015, 1:22:37 AM8 votes

Yi can stack a Devourer in 15 minutes.

A Miss Fortune7/11/2015, 2:53:49 AM7 votes

I just went 29-11 with Graves and 20-5 with Miss Fortune, both games I died to someone who unfairly killed me (Udyr and Jax) due to Sated Devourer, actually, they weren't even fed or close to being fed until after they got it and were falling behind.

The item is broken, I don't like how I can be insanely fed but still be insta'ed by someone simply because they have Sated + BoRK and/or Wit's End.

Knight SoIaire 7/11/2015, 11:32:45 AM6 votes

a mega tanky shywana just ults to you and oneshots you ... yeah sateddewourer is fine

a master yi who built couple offensive items and much tankyness melts canks and carries alike ... yeah its fine

full ad aatrox can tank an entire team ... thats also fine

while your points are right ... champion who was doing good before sating dewoured is doing even better with sated dewourer

you totaly ignored how dewourer affects said chammpions shywana jax yi aatrox ... whoever scales with it good can just pick dewourer back it up with one offensive item or 2 if they want to go ham and actualy tank themselves ... and the thing is that they can still retain the top tier dps of someone who built 5 offensive items while having a solid amount of defense to back it up

what dewourer does is simply amplyfying certain kits beyond a reasonable amount ... allowing them to itemize themselves with the power that others would need additional item slots to archieve

Cupkek7/11/2015, 3:24:59 AM5 votes

The issue is mainly that post-satiation and Bork, he can build tank and then become a % max HP on-hit bruiser while being able to Alpha Strike every few seconds because of the auto-attack cooldown being even further reduced by Sated Devourer.

My issue with Sated Devourer is that it makes an already great dueling/splitpushing champion even better while giving them all the DPS they could possibly need, so they build tank items afterward, making them unkillable.

It's not just Yi either, Shyvana and Xin Zhao both jump exponentially in power with Sated Devourer. However, Shyvana isn't nearly as pubstompish.