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Please Do Something about Devouer

Naomi Yuki·2/12/2016, 8:26:24 PM·9 votes·771 views

Hi, I'm in lower Elo (Silver 4 in S5) And I'm experiencing a common Issue that makes some games so unenjoyable that its not even fun. This issue is with Devourer. When on any champion with an on hit effect (Yi, Jax and even Shyvanna) the character deals so much damage that no team can deal with them in this Elo. Yi in particular feels very cheap when a master yi with the following build does 66k champion damage in a 40m game; Compared to the 22k on more or less every other player in the game (bar the supports) So... this was a thing I experienced, and this was with an entire team focusing him too. as everyone was on the same page about how stupid he was damaging and No one could kill him! Please Rito Do something about this :/ Ever since this build came into being, Its been the bane of low Elo where players can't deal with it and even those with 3yr + experience can't coordinate a team to handle it.

Every game until it's patched that this thing appears in i'm gonna post an update on the data.

16 Comments

alasarcher2/12/2016, 8:29:21 PM2 votes

Thats the freakin point of devourer, to deal huge damage. It takes 20 minutes to get fully stacked, u have to play arround it.

Sneakyy XD2/12/2016, 9:04:56 PM2 votes

It's not Devourer. It's Rageblade.

Noksterz2/12/2016, 9:23:37 PM2 votes

Its balanced. It takes forever to stack. If someone plays a devourer jungler they cant gank or have as much map pressure as a regular jungler. They have to focus too hard on stacking. Take away the scuttle crab everytime it spawns, since it gives 2 stacks. That alone will slow down devourer junglers, not to mention a slew of other things you can do. Like not letting them get dragons either (5 stacks). 1 cc and yi is deleted. Hes not difficult to deal with, he needs to be focused by the whole team at the same time. Devourer is fine...its the item changes that allow it to be so good. But i still don't think its op. It gives a lot of junglers a legit viable way to play, whereas before they were nearly unplayable. And Riot isnt going to alter an items viability just b/c one elo cant play around it. That would be poor balance strategy

Cherysse2/12/2016, 9:01:25 PM1 votes

Even at high elo this is a problem.

Naomi Yuki2/12/2016, 9:49:57 PM1 votes

I think I've ID'd one of the main issues with this item; Its damage is above any other melee damage item

At base its giving 40% attack speed and 30 Damage on hit. Thats not bad, but once you get to 60 magic damage on hit, that is just below a Infinity edge, however, As the second attack is double on hit effects this means your now dealing 90 Magic damage on adverage per a strike. Which is 15 Above any other direct damage item, and you have attack speed so your doing it more often too. most Items are either Attack Speed or Attack Damage, while This has both the highest on hit effect in the game, and highest raw damage per a blow in game. ontop of the 40% attack speed which is pretty good on its own. Once combined with other on hit items though the calculation breaks down like so;

Devourer; 90 Dmg (40% attack speed) Wits End; 60 Dmg (40% attack speed) Nashor Tooth; (22.5+22.5%) (80AP) (50% attack speed) Rage Blade; 20+22.5%AD+11.25% AP (54 AD)(72AP)(Area on hit)

So... your getting a 122.5% AD Auto Attack, Plus enough Attack speed to easily go 2.0 and if Yi you can ult to make that 2.5 and Dealing an incredible amount of on hit damage (60+90+51) Now if you plug a hextech in and your sustain is hitting and tanacity boots. Then all it takes is a team that isn't running hard CC and your fucked. Which in Low Elo, you very rarely have someone other than the support with such ability, and being low Elo, those supports are normally Blitz or Thresh. both of which can't stop a master Yi for more than a few seconds. This is why its a major issue. This is of course ignoring that Archangels and runekings are also viable options and can be used vs the mega tanks over a Tooth (as it doesn't do that much over all) This really needs sorting. down where I am its a case of; Is your jungle running Devourer, if No. and the enemy is GG. If so, and the other team don't GG, and if both are who wins 1v1

ofart2/13/2016, 2:36:30 AM1 votes

Devourer is so good that literally zero Devourer champions are used competitively. l2p