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Just remove devourer, it has caused nothing good

KushDid420·4/5/2016, 5:29:31 PM·2 votes·517 views

From On-Hit abuse to Tank abuse it has caused many champions to become broken and nerfed because of it.

The concept is a very interesting one, farm a lot and get rewarded for it, however both the way of earning it and the reward are very toxic.

AFK farm and risk your team losing lanes for 25 minutes, and then become the biggest on hit abuser afterwards, this has not been healthy for the game.

We've had Kindred getting it nerfed because ranged champions abused it

We've had tanks and bruisers who do more damage than the actual carries with it like Shyvana

We've had squishes be able to build tanky because of it and rage blade

And some games have been lost because some junglers are very dependant on it and useless without it.

DFG was removed because it was deemed unhealthy by Riot and they buffed the champions that were highly reliant on it so why can't it be the same if they remove Devourer?

Warrior also needs some love because most champions who used it now use sated or something else

2 Comments

JC DarkOmen4/5/2016, 5:50:09 PM3 votes

You think Master Yi and Shyvana would be better off without Devourer? They'd still have to sit in the jungle and farm to be useful, but they'd just get no reward. Kindred and other ranged champs got it nerfed for ranged champs, they had no impact on it for melee champs (I personally enjoyed Sayted Vayne, you didn't even have to jg with her you just laned until you get Devourer then tell your jg to come get dragon and leash all their camps. It was awesome!). When you put a fighter and a squishy carry in melee range of each other the fighter is supposed to win; Shyvanna does that even building Cinderhulk. If some junglers are useless without it, removing it would make them permanently useless. DFG was removed because it created an unfair playstyle with no counterplay aside from 'one shout them before they one shot you'. Devourer has counterplay; invade their jungle to push off sated for as long as possible, then when they get it peel for your carries like you're supposed to. And the last thing we need right now is Lee Sin and J4 buffs.

SexualizeOatmeal4/6/2016, 12:40:05 AM1 votes

The reason Devourer is still around, is because its balanced in its own way. The champions that usually use it are those who are farm junglers (Yi and Shyvana are good examples). Those champs NEED the farm to do what they are ment to do (Although Shyvana can go Cinderhulk, depending on what the team needs). The champions that build Warriors are usually the champions that do well in the early stages of the same (Lee, and Vi for example). Warrior is a big buff on Lee thanks to the damage and CDR. Point is, Devourer makes many many junglers viable, infact, the junglers that get Dev are usually Auto Attack Reliant, (Shyvana, Yi, Kayle, Kindred, Warwick, Aatrox, Tryndamere) are examples of this. In the end, the item is balanced due to the way you need to farm it, and, if you do go to lane to help, you are going to be put behind, if you dont gank, chances are your team is going to be behind. So, overall the item is balanced in its own way.