Bloodrazor is not Sated Devourer, fix the recommended builds

The Ecdysiast··1 votes·598 views

In regards to recommended builds which are followed almost religiously by new players:

Many junglers have abilities which benefited from the double on-hit of Sated Devourer, which is now located on Guinsoo's Rageblade: Shyvana Udyr XinZhao MasterYi Vi Aatrox Diana Warwick Kindred Kayle Jax

A large portion of these champions did not need the added attack speed as much as the Sated effect, because cooldowns were reduced or abilities were activated every 2 instead of every 3 attacks: Shyvana Udyr XinZhao MasterYi Vi Aatrox Diana Jax.

Swapping the effect to Guinsoo's Rage effectively cut off this item from the build path of all champions who don't go for prolonged fights to stack up Rage or don't benefit enough from the AP to warrant purchase, so the pool who can effectively use that item in most team comps is: Kayle Udyr XinZhao Jax

However, Bloodrazor does NOT have the Sated Devourer passive. Instead, it has an on-hit of 4% the enemy's maximum HP. The champions that make more use of this than the other three jungle item choices are: Warwick Kindred Two choices for whom Sated Devourer wasn't the best on in the first place, one of which was the cause of Sated's nerf for ranged champs, along with Kayle.

So then, ONLY Kindred and Warwick should still have Bloodrazor as the recommended item. It's ridiculous that the recommended item was left as "the attack speed item" when the passive effect of the attack speed choice was changed entirely.

I hope they fix the recommended builds so that newer players aren't caught into the trap of buying this item when the recommendation is actually for a nonexistent item--while many that can still buy Guinsoo's instead don't even have it recommended.

TL;DR: Tiny purple wolf doesn't exist any more.

5 Comments

Sukishoo4 votes

"Recommended builds" are so outdated for all champions, all maps, ect that they really are pointless. Most people usually use their own item sets they've built, have downloaded online or just select items in the shop. There's really very little reason for them to try and update the "recommended builds" since Riot has always had really bad sense when making those.

The Ecdysiast2 votes

Hence I said for "newer players."

Since Riot halved the experience needed to play PvP against level 30s, there's been a big increase in newbies who follow the recommended build every game.

Smite ALWAYS keeps up to date with their recommended builds, because they have someone who actually plays the game competitively deal with the builds. No reason Riot, the bigger MOBA, shouldn't be able to.

And as you said, people look online. The least Riot could do is tell one guy to spend a day or two checking out mobafire and switching the recommendations.

Sukishoo2 votes

TLDR: didn't see the part about "new players" XD

Anyway, HiRez does a ton of things for SMITE that Riot has taken years to even make a similar dent on in League. So I doubt they'll keep up in that aspect unfortunately.

The Ecdysiast1 votes

It's alright. I should put things like that at the beginning. But I figure older players would realize that what I'm saying only applies to players who actually use the recommended builds.

And yeah. They had a bunch of time to study League to see what works and what doesn't as far as instruction. Their tutorials are way more in-depth, for one.

legionnaire991 votes

Everyone on you list but Diana Vi uses bloodrazer the best. Well maybe also Aatrox but no matter what you get you will be useless on him

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