Kindred uses Devourer better than Warrior.

SIayton··1 votes·977 views

I see a lot of people saying Warrior >>>>> Devourer on Kindred but I wonder how many people have really put a lot of time in with the two. Kindred has low numbers, poor AD scaling, and doesn't care about cooldowns because of the flat cooldown on Q thanks to W. Most people build Warrior for a strong early game but the armor pen seems wasted IMO because you don't have many stacks of your passive early game and thus don't need the pen for the passive.

Because most of her kit's damage comes from autos with her passive, attack speed naturally makes the most sense on her, since more attacks = more procs. And because her AD and AP scaling is poor, having a number with a separate scaling in the devourer's on hit effect actually increases her damage more than you would get on Warrior. To top it off, kiting is much easier with more attack speed, you can take objectives faster with more auto attacks, and the extra hit from every 4th auto, even if nerfed, is still an extra hit that you wouldn't have with Warrior. I'm also not sure if this is the case but it seems Wolf's attack speed also increases with yours, so you're getting more damage with W when you build devourer.

All in all, I think its a much more effective enchant on her. What are other people's thoughts?

9 Comments

Aezanthya2 votes

Like I said in another thread : Warrior > devourer. Ad is ad, even tho she has shitty scaling it stills increases her auto's damage so it's not completely a wasted stat. Armor pen... mmh I wonder ? her passive is %current hp physical damage, her Q is flat physical damage, her w is flat physical damage, her e is %max hp physical damage.... yeah i guess armor pen is really good on her. The cdr, never hurts to get some cdr.

I see two big issues with devourer : it puts you way behind warrior if you don't get passive stacks. And don't tell me she does not need stacks because that's a lie. Plus if you don't manage to get sated fast (Kindred is also REALLY screwed by counter jungling)... you basically bought a worthless item.

Warrior is straight up a damage boost and helps her really well early game, you don't have to worry about those 30 stacks and you can just gank wherever you want or whatever without having to worry. Also, when you get some items... you basically kill any squishy or not really tanky target in 3-4 hits... making devourer totally useless.

yay nibbers2 votes

Poor AD scalings is very good reason to build armor penetration. Beyond that, Kindred does a lot of %HP damage and they need to get through every bit of armor they can to maximize their damage. Building Warrior, Youmuu's, and Last Whisper along with taking arm.pen runes gives lets you get through most if not all of the armor of all but the tankiest of tanks so you can deal tons of %HP damage.

Devourer is worse on Kindred because it takes away from your early game and forces you to farm for minimal gain come Sated now that it's been nerfed on Ranged champions. Building Warrior opens you up to gank early and make good use of that 70% slow they get with their E, as well as bringing decent damage into the ganks.

SIayton1 votes

I mean, her ganks aren't really any worse with devourer. I'm having no problem ganking with it myself.

yay nibbers1 votes

It's not that they're mechanically worse or anything, it's that you'll be doing less damage than you would with Warrior and you'll be losing out on Devourer stacks if the gank isn't short and ends in a kill.

Sasogwa1 votes

I guess both are good, warrior gives a stronger powerspike and when you have enough stacks, devourer becomes better.

SIayton1 votes

I just get devourer > brut and basically get the benefits of building both. Then build bork and finish brut into yooooomoooos. Seems to be her best build path for me so far.

destiny fan1 votes

loads of % physical damage

wonder why people build arpen

SIayton1 votes

But if you can attack them 2-3 times in the window you would have attacked once with warrior, you're still doing more damage.

Crossette1 votes

Devourer is more effective on almost every champion, even with the 4-hit nerf.

Fuck that item to hell.

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