This is not the way to nerf Devourer

Enchantment: Devourer Base magic damage on hit lowered to 25 from 30. Number of stacks for transformation increased to 35 from 30.

Okay, Devourer is one of the best scaling items in the entire game. Thats simple to get. However, there is ALOT of risk involved with getting devourer. Basically everyone in high elo (masters+) thinks its a garbage tier item and avoids it at all costs. Hell, everytime i see Faker play , he always builds Cinderhulk, likely because he doesnt want to afk farm the entire game because that doesnt work in higher elo.

Putting it at 35 stacks is outrageous. If youre behind on a devourer jungler and the enemy is just taking your camps because they are ahead, you legitmately wont win that game unless they throw, and i mean they all die and you get a NA baron steal kinda throw. If youre ahead enough to the point you can just farm and your team just keeps winning 4v5, it doesnt matter if you add 5 stacks, they are just going to get those with one more rift herald or dragon since they have map control.

With the exception of , the major devourer junglers; , are not amazingly strong because of it. Its because they (and ) abuse , an item that has been problematic every since its rework. Please, consider nerfing the item before Devourer, atleast attempt doing so before you inevitably end up having to nerf it anyways because everyone will continue to complain about it.

If you think attack speed junglers need to be changed, just change to either a 3000-3200 gold cost, or make it so melee auto attacks only give you one stack instead of 2, because at the moment it is just way too gold effecient and you can get 8 stacks like nothing with enough attack speed.

Its also unfair for you to nerf Devourer now that is around. The early game is so heavily dominated by champions who already had unmatched early pressure like , that devourer junglers are going to have an even harder time trying to scrape together their stacks while trying to make sure their team doesnt get manhandled by a Nidalee who went from bot lane to top lane in 30 seconds.

On top of it all, Devourer is NEVER going to see LCS play due to the nature of the item, so its not exactly like its a problem there at all, and infact makes several champions in the jungle essentially unplayable in LCS unless they abuse a different item such as Runic Echoes .