Sated Devourer

AttackOfTheBeard·Sep 18, 2015·2 votes·583 views

Ok. Chances are I'm going to catch a lot of flak since it was just nerfed (slightly) in 5.18, but Sated Devourer just has to go. The fact that I can be a fed Graves at 7/1 (with completed IE, Shiv, boots, and vamp sceptor) and Xin Zhao can still destroy me even though he's sitting at 1/6.....how is that balanced? This Xin had just gotten Sated and had a completed BOTRK. I realize ADC's are not meant to 1v1 assassin's/bruisers but given how fed I was and how far behind he SEEMED to be I figured I could stand my own. Not just get Q combo+AA stomped in 2 seconds. Playing against a jungler that is auto attack/DPS reliant as a squishy carry is not fun. Playing against/with Sated Devourer junglers is not fun. I was less frustrated even when Cinderhulk was at it's prime. Obviously this is my opinion and not everybody will agree with it. I just felt the need to vent out my frustrations on this jungle enchantment.

4 Comments

ParcevalSep 18, 20153 votes

Just positioning man, you could win that fight easily. Graves has very short aa range, so you can't aa+move much before xin is in range to dive you. Which means you need to plan your dash, w, r combo carefully.

I understand your concern, but I think this issue can be solved as you improve your gameplay.

AttackOfTheBeardSep 18, 20151 votes

I will try to improve my positioning if the situation is to happen again but it isn't just this scenario that is making me post. It's just the final one that made me feel I needed to say something. Here are a couple of the reasons why I find Sated to be not fun and just brutal to play with/against.

Teammate jungler is going Sated:

you aren't going to get very many ganks if any until he's going for Sated.
if the opposing team picks a strong early game jungler and pressures lanes and gets them all snowballed then it's very difficult to come back from.
if the opposing team jungler is also going for Sated, Dragon is now the most important objective on the map. even more so than turrets it feels like.

Against Sated:

team doesn't counterjungle or take Scuttles whenever they are on map to postpone Sated.
this jungler actually ganks realizing that he can still get stacks with kills/assists.
your jungler gets counterjungled by enemy team and therefore he can't gank lanes as well due to being behind.

Now for the champions that I believe to be just to strong and unfair with Sated: Shyvana, Yi, Xin Shyvana because of her ridiculous burst with the auto attack reset. Yi because of the ridiculous amount of True Damage he is able to put out in such a short time and the phantom hit reducing the cooldown on Alpha Strike. Xin because of his passive healing and being able to proc the knockup on Q so quickly to get CD on his other spells.

ParcevalSep 18, 20152 votes

Feels like the classic "my jungler sucks, their jungler op" argument buddy.

Maybe it needs more tweaking, I'll give you that. But there are more options in the game right now than there ever have been.

AttackOfTheBeardSep 18, 20151 votes

That's all you got from those many reasons I gave for why I believe Sated provides a horrible Rift? I've literally gotten Sated myself with Aatrox in 14 minutes and went on to crush the enemy team until they had no choice but to surrender at 20. That isn't a healthy game state where I can 1v3 just because of one item. Then when you add BOTRK to that it's gg to anyone who tries to fight you. At least during the Cinderhulk reign it wasn't one/two second deletion from the game. It was slow sustained damage with CC. This shit gets ridiculous.