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Questions about Devourer

Gadwar·8/16/2015, 6:09:06 PM·1 votes·699 views

How do you guys play against champions like kyle. shyvanna or yi? I noticed they spend most early game farming like crazy not ganking, not controlling the objective but boring farming and then killing wit basic AA. I main tanks and I want to say I don'f feel like a tank anymore. I'm getting 3 or 4 hits and I disappear. Not mentioning my poor squishy teammates. I wanted to build to soak up this dmg from devourer but in never works with that high pirces for MR and so little MR item. The Meta changes so often in League that its kinda pushing me away from my favorite game I can't keep up with all those changes! Do you guys think that devourer is in healthy state right now? I don't see any posts complaining about it so maybe its just unlucky me with jg enemy champions that gets ahead and play very well. Guys share pls because I'm in low elo and I was on my way out. But then tanky assasin champions started to dominate the game. Oh and invading the jg and following the enemy jg in their jg doesnt sound fun, just to keep them away from stacking. Does anyone actually build cinder hulk anymore? Sorry for my bad English it isn't my native language. And I don't know it all so if u guys know a healthy recipe to play against them without crying OP go ahead. Thanks for attention. <3

8 Comments

Xantak8/16/2015, 6:57:01 PM2 votes

Devourer isn't broken. It does get obnoxious with Blade of the Ruined King(which itself is a worse, more powerful item), and Wit's End. To deal with Kayle, Yi, or Shyvanna, use crowd control with knockups, or lockdowns(Alistar, Sejuani, Malphite for example). For Kayle or Shyvanna, using slows does help out as well, since they can be kited. Any jungler who is decent with Devourer actually does heavy control of neutral objectives, not just hiding in the jungle. Scuttlecrab and Dragon offer a lot of stacks quickly on. If you're coordinating with your team(yeah, I know, tough to do in Solo Q), you can use the early game to hamstring the Devourer. The biggest thing that will help is if your team actually goes proactive with vision, and also upgrades their trinkets. Most games, a lot of players are too lazy to drop the 250 gold down, or ward past 10 minutes in the game, then grumble when they get bushwhacked. Vision wins games, and it's NOT only a jungler or support's responsibility.

Vore Monster8/16/2015, 6:21:44 PM1 votes

Get your jungler to counter-jungle and get lanes to push harder. They want to farm up unless they can get an easy kill for a stack.

TheDangerousTaco8/16/2015, 6:21:46 PM1 votes

As agreeing with everyone, devour is broken. The only way I see to counter it is like Coolxwdude said. Be agreesive early game and try to snowball a win, devour is all about lategame, if the early game ends before they have a chance to farm up you will set the back heavily ( since there not ganking anyway ). So basically push towers, and snowball your other laners :P even if your in a solo lane, roam when you can to add pressure to the junglers for not doing there job ^_^ hope that is helpful

foinhas8/16/2015, 8:39:58 PM1 votes

It has a lot to do with the current meta. Tanks usually build very little mr, not because they want to, but because there are very few viable mr options. One armor item is enoug to get you nearly to 200 armor at lvl 18. You need at least 3 mr items (bv+sv+merc) to get the same amount. Add to that the fact that ap got a HUGE boost and we got ourselves something that might become problematic. Devourer only came to show us how powerfull magic damage can be

Nekusen8/16/2015, 11:26:56 PM1 votes

i dont get why the attack speed enchant is the only one that benefits from stacks

BluePolarizer8/16/2015, 11:29:44 PM1 votes

counterjungling is the wrong way to go about it. It is too hard, especially when alot of devourer junglers are also great duelists.

The real way to go about it is to snowball your lanes until it doesnt matter anymore. Sated devourer doesn't beat IE and Deathcap.

Sakura Mirage8/16/2015, 6:11:46 PM1 votes

Counter jungle early aggression a make sure to push towers when you kill bot lane mid top. Open up the map to make picks.

Gadwar8/17/2015, 12:13:49 AM1 votes

Thank you Very much for your answers.