Devourer... Is it just me or...

Samael11·2/9/2016, 4:11:37 PM·1 votes·460 views

...Is it terrible this season and in serious need of a buff or price / number of stacks needed decrease?

Initially, with all the faster income changes I thought it might be more useable on more champs since it could be gotten faster.

Having played multiple games as Jungler recently and trying it out... yeah, not so much... The fact that games are now 5-10 minutes shorter on average, and everyone else also has that increased gold generation, seems to translate into there being less time to farm stacks on it by the time you finally purchase it, and it still needs to be your first purchase to be worth anything (which will frequently cause other issues).

It seems woefully problematic and like a giant gold sink of a trap, compared to last season where it was actually ridiculously good on certain champs.

As an aside, All you people who bitch at your jungler, and call competent or good junglers trash when they aren't baby-sitting you every gods-damned second, you need to summoner-up and queue as fill/jungle.
I queue jungler secondary, and I'm currently shooting around 80+% jungle when I queue ranked. Most of those asshats probably don't use the forum though so /shrug, just getting it off my chest.

7 Comments

Jbels2/9/2016, 4:13:47 PM4 votes

Absolutely not. the people who have trouble getting Devourer fully stacked are the ones that aren't abusing the fact that Rift Herald provides a free 10 stacks before disappearing for Baron. Combine that with the 2 dragons you can get in that time, and you've got 20 stacks within 12 minutes. Devourer does NOT need any favors

Paroe2/9/2016, 4:19:42 PM1 votes

the people who USE devourers well dont need help stacking it; 20 minute devourers on most users is the norm.

Crett2/9/2016, 4:20:03 PM1 votes

XinZhao item 1415 item 3146 item 3124 item 3065 item 3091 After seeing this unholy combination you will never want to see devourer again

Linna Excel2/9/2016, 4:29:26 PM1 votes

Is it terrible this season and in serious need of a buff or price / number of stacks needed decrease?

Who are you using it on? It's good on a few champs, it can work on a few more, but it isn't for everyone.

Anyways, I think it needs a rework but every time riot works on it or something like it, the item is either OP or UP. It's just not something they can get right. Part of me thinks the max stacks should be reduced to 20, but reduce the max on-hit damage to 50 for the sated version... maybe give a small AS boost as compensation for the loss of raw damage.

Borkahn2/9/2016, 5:26:15 PM1 votes

One, language....no need to use "GD"

Two, if you are not sated by at least 18 minutes and I am throwing you a huge bone here, then you are not doing it right. I've been sated by the 12:30 mark before and average around the 16 minute mark. You are doing something wrong if it is taking you awhile to get sated.