Dear Devourer Junglers:

ElJanitorFrank·8/25/2015, 11:03:36 PM·2 votes·463 views

You don't need to exclusively farm the jungle. You CAN gank.

If I've been ganked 3 times, and am still getting ganked WHILE THE OTHER LANES ARE LOSING AS WELL, you are doing an atrocious job by not putting any pressure anywhere at all.

5 Comments

Dr Poro8/25/2015, 11:13:26 PM3 votes

Some devourer junglers like XinZhao can gank early. But if you seriously expect a gank from Warwick pre lvl6, you ... need to stop doing that and play safer early game.

Seriously, asking your devourer jungler for early ganks delays their power spike. Learn to play without a jungler and live longer and happier.

Sniper 08/25/2015, 11:10:52 PM2 votes

I don't play devourer junglers because I don't feel like I'm impacting the early game enough.

HaIlMonitor8/25/2015, 11:16:30 PM1 votes

If every lane is losing hard ganking as a devour jungle to be honest probably isn't the best idea . If they hit devour and it is as "broken" as people think they should be able to 1v5 right after they get it at 20 lol.

Seriously though that is being put between a rock and a hard place as a jungler. There have been times where my team has pretty much been aced before I do my first clear (every laner dies) Hell I have had people die 2-3 times before I hit 6 and I play a lot of level 6 power junglers. You cant really do a lot as a jungler at that point other then try to sneak towers/dragon when people back. Ganking a lane that is already down 3 kills is pretty much a guaranteed double kill for the enemy which is worst then if you don't gank at all. But what would I know I just kill NPC's and blow up carries.

Vicarious1178/25/2015, 11:19:22 PM1 votes

Yeah when devourer first came out I thought it was great, I played a lot of Aatrox jungle with it for example, once sated Aatrox is ridiculous (or more so he's viable again.... which should be something for Riot to take note of....). However there were those games where I'd be doing scuttle and my nearby lane would be ganked, so I'd either have to run to that lane and help out, sometimes even resulting in my own death as well or more often just resulted in no kills on either side and me just saving my laners, but also sacrificing the scuttle usually, OR I'd try to finish the scuttle and get those stacks so I could be truly helpful with sated sooner but also risk my bot lane dying then the inevitable shit storm that would be thrown my way for not also dying with them.

In both cases I felt like I was losing something, the only times playing a devourer jungler even felt good was when my lanes were winning hard enough to withstand an average gank on their own so I could just farm then come out of the jungle sated and useful, which is like 5% of games if that.

So yeah, I just don't play devourer junglers anymore, my teams usually need me to carry more then just one lane single handedly for them in order to win and as a devourer jungler that's just not optimal. Back to the cinderhulk I went!