Why The Devourer Enchantment needs to be either nerfed or removed.

Evil Jester··4 votes·3,750 views

So there gutting Warwick instead of the ITEM that made him overpowered to begin with? Here are my 2 cents as to why I can't agree with this decision.

The item almost LITERALLY gives any champion a free Nasus Q on large monsters, except the bonus works on ALL auto attacks. Champions like xin, tryn, jax, aatrox, udyr all not only benefit really well from this item but when feed enough from the jungle can be just as stupidly OP with that enchantment.

THE ONLY reason WW is stupidly OP is because his ult CAPITALISES HEAVILY on that item, as he is able to deal ALL THE BONUS DAMAGE HE FARMED FROM THAT ITEM 5 TIMES in 1.5 SECONDS with his ult. Without that item WW isn't NEARLY as much of a threat as he is now as he NEVER had that kind of of damage output before this item.

You don't loose stacks with Devourer either, no consequences, no risk. As long as you just keep farming you are GUARANTEED to have ridiculous amounts of heavy damage mid and late game. Even if you are doing horrible early game and can't get the double stacks from assists or kills, you can just sit in the jungle and farm Damage without having to spend your gold on anything.

This nerf on Warwick is unjustified on the basis that that without this item Warwick would not be as powerful.

I know for a fact once Warwick is nerfed, these other champs are going to come out having the same kind of snowballing effect and similar damage utilising the Devourer, due to the fact that this OP item has 0 risk or consequence using it.

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Atyres4 votes

Except that the same exact thing happened with Feral Flare and yet no one really cried "WW OP"

Evil Jester2 votes

Except that the same exact thing happened with Feral Flare and yet no one really cried "WW OP"

Feral had a cap, 20% less attack speed, almost half the base damage at 25, and could only gain 1 stack at a time.

Devourer has 50% attackspeed, 40 base magic damage, and gains 1 stack per giant monster, and 2 per assist or kill against champions.

And you are right, nobody called WW OP back then, nerfing devourer to the same values would be enough to put Warwick back to where he was before and he wouldn't be nearly as OP as is now.

Nerfing Warwick would encourage other champions to take up this item and have the same damage outburst.

Cale0171 votes

You're forgetting one key difference here. FF gave a small amount of AD on top of what all else it did, but Devourer's does not. All it gives is 50% AS and the magic on hit. Most auto attack focused champions in the jungle are not going to itemize to make the most out of magic damage, they're going to focus on their physical damage instead. So while the magic damage from Devourer's might be going up by number, it isn't necessarily getting quite as effective as you might think because those junglers aren't building spell pen/reduction... unless they're Evelynn. Losing out on the AD offered by FF means that champions like Rengar or Nocturne's spells are now hitting weaker as a result.

Devourer's looks like it's giving a whole lot, but in reality it isn't. The true damage on hit from the Skirmisher's is giving a lot more than you're getting from the magic damage on Devourer's until you get to the mid to late game, where almost anyone but an ADC will have a solid amount of MR to work with, so Devourer's magic damage is being greatly reduced.

L0reweaver1 votes

Anyone tried this on Fiora or Twitch ? I haven't gotten to play those champions but don't they have ultimates that benefit from basic attack on hits?

I can say i've abused this with TwistedFate max attack speed item 3085 in a bot game and Gangplank 'q' Every Parrrley is a killshot.

Durzaka1 votes

Except that Devourer isnt OP on anyone else. It is strong. But it isnt OP.

WW breaks the god damn game with it.

poopoo peepee1 votes

They did nerf devourer. I believe they reduced it's base damage.. And it's not the devourer as much as the true damage smite, in my opinion.

USG Morta1 votes

they reverted the nerfs on devourer and instead have nerfed warwick on the pbe

Cupkek1 votes

I am inclined to agree.

Why nerf the champion when the item is the problem?

ofart1 votes

The item isn't a problem outside of WW.

Cale0171 votes

Not really. All of the other champions who use Devourer's well aren't nearly as much of a problem. Warwick synergizes with it to an insane amount, which makes it look broken, when in fact it's only Warwick's synergy that makes it that way. He's breaking the item, it isn't breaking him.

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