Devourer = Feral Flare on Roids

Anduraga·11/23/2014, 6:05:02 AM·1 votes·1,995 views

You had to nerf feral flare in the past due to certain champions abusing its power, exactly why did you return it back to its former glory? The jungle is in a bad enough spot as it is without Udyr and WW crowding it all out.

8 Comments

KzooCrasher11/23/2014, 6:13:23 AM2 votes

Do you even remember what the old one did? Scaling on hit heal.....

Killer X 1211/23/2014, 6:12:46 AM1 votes

Godyr tho. He literally can 1v5 by level 11 with no kills and just jungle farm. lol dumbest shit.

darkdill11/23/2014, 6:15:40 AM1 votes

Because it's WAY more expensive now?

EffectFX11/23/2014, 6:24:50 AM1 votes

"On roids"

Not really.

EndlessSorcerer11/23/2014, 6:26:01 AM1 votes

There were 3 main issues with Feral Flare that Devourer doesn't have.

  1. The number of camps required to transform Wriggle's Lantern into Feral Flare meant that many champions had to powerfarm early to get the transformation at a reasonable time, meaning they wouldn't be ganking lanes.
  2. The on-hit healing scaled with your stacks, so some champions could powerfarm a Feral Flare to 40 stacks and have 50 healing on-hit
  3. The damage tripled against monster camps and minions, so Feral Flare junglers could clear Dragon and Baron very quickly

Devourer has fixed most of these issues: it doesn't need to transform, it doesn't have any healing, it doesn't deal extra damage to monster camps, and it gives 2 stacks for champion kills and assists which incentives junglers to gank and teamfight more than Feral Flare did. These changes, combined with the increase difficulty of the jungle, camp spawn times, and experience changes to jungle monsters, have greatly improved the item.

Diostukos11/23/2014, 6:26:44 AM1 votes

Well, you guys complained about 'trick2gfanboys' playing Godyr and never ganking. So now they can spend less time farming and more time ganking with a 15-stack loaded item much earlier.

You brought this upon yourselves :^)

3ternalkarma11/23/2014, 6:06:47 AM1 votes

Diversity bro... remember thats what they were going for..... and it worked considering before it was lee every single game

Cerbearus11/23/2014, 6:37:19 AM1 votes

I do agree somewhat. It definitely does WAY more damage than FF did. I just had a 29 minute game where I was doing 105 magic damage on-hit (65 stacks) with this item! I have never once gotten that high even on 50+ minute games with FF.

More damage to champs, faster stacking, no transform, incentivizes ganks.

Less damage to monsters, no healing, more expensive