Why are we trying to make devourer viable again?

hashinshin··3 votes·657 views

Lets just look at the facts. Not my opinion. Not your opinion. Just simple facts.

  1. Devourer has gone through multiple item iterations now, and has been buffed/nerfed/remade more than pretty much any other item at this point. The sheer development time that has gone in to devourer could have been put in to actual items that could work. We could have a viable gunblade, rageblade, maybe even some new items. Instead we get devourer remake #2 on top of another patch of devourer changes.

  2. Devourer has NEVER been balanced at high ELO and low ELO at the same time. If it's playable competitively it's OP as fuck at the low tiers. If it's playable at the low tiers it's useless at the high tiers. This has never changed and it never will change due to how the game is played. Instead Riot insists that THIS TIME it will work.

  3. Riot doesn't change or buff devourer in ways that might make it playable, they just buff/nerf the numbers. Which is really what's so frustrating about this. They COULD have been using this time to actually revamp the item in to something that could work, but instead they just go "mmmm +20 damage.... nono -20 damage. -20 damage again. No lets try with +20 damage again. Yeah +20 again. Nono -20."

  4. And this is the most important: The only people who DON'T look at devourer buffs and go "man fuck that" are the incredibly few people that like devourer. Devourer breaks the game because it scales indefinitely, and will often out perform even 2 items by late game getting to 100 magic on hit +50% attack speed. It wasn't fun in S4, It's not gonna be fun in S5. It's especially frustrating for all my low ELO friends who see a master yi on the opposing team and know that they have to win within 30 minutes or they'll lose. But the problem is low ELO doesn't win in 30 minutes! And with their lower CS rates they never even obtain the weapons needed to win against it.

  5. And lastly: Why? Who asked for this? Was there any demand on the forums? I see people asking for gunblade/reageblade buffs. I see people asking for more fighter itemization. I see people asking for more diversity in AD itemization. People asking for devourer buffs? Nope pretty much never seen any of those. Somebody at Riot is clearly fanboying the hell out of devourer as shown by the amount of attention it has gotten as an item that makes the game worse. This is the Nidalee is items: An item that nobody likes, that makes the game worse when it's good, that keeps getting revamps and buffs and nerfs for no reason.

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TheRakkun4 votes

On point 4 new devourer stops scaling once it becomes sated

LoLKiru1 votes

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On point 4 new devourer stops scaling once it becomes sated

This

On point 5, weren't there MANY people asking to "make the other jungle items more viable" since currently the only 2 really worth buying were Warrior and Cinderhulk (not sure about Runeglaive, haven't really played enough since the patch to access that).

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

Feral was broken only when you could heal like madman - Fizz fulltank jungle soloing baron (and 1shotting people) was a thing with release feral.

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