Thoughts on the new devourer?

The item is pretty interesting and champions like Shyvana or Yi are really benefiting from the Devourer. With this item you need to ban even more champions than before, which can be a problem in ranked. D:

 

I honestly don't understand why Riot is trying to push the farm-till-30 meta of junglers again. Especially by reusing the same concept that proved to be ridiculously OP a few patches ago. The 'sated' status will make Yi ridiculous for soloQ.
I understand that competitive won't be changed much due to the coordination that is required and the fact that having a Devourer-jungler means that the team will be weak for the early-mid game part, but in soloQ there's absolutely no communication, coordination or understanding of the game's objectives and powerspikes, which will obviously make the devourer junglers op. Especially because not only did they introduce devourer, they also repeatedly nerfed Cinderhulk, which is typical Riot behavior I guess.

 

I still think the old devour item was stronger than the sated devour. I don't mind junglers farming the item up, but the same problem that existed with the original devour farming, people don't understand that you can still gank lanes and get stacks on it. A champion like Yi is very capable of ganking lanes, and doesn't need to powerful, where as someone like Shyv can do both but excels at farming. Ah well, I can deal with it. I'm just glad runeglaive got trashed.

 

Hmm. Yes, junglers COULD still gank lanes and get stacks on it. But in the jungle you can safely get way more stacks, why risk it. You can still apply pressure on the lanes without ganking by sweeping stuff and keeping tabs on the other jungler.
It's just a case of risk/reward. Farming the jungle for the first 20 minutes with devourer: you lack the early game pressure and are dependent on your lanes to do well, but you safely and reliably get stacks. Medium risk/High reward
Ganking early game with devourer: you can't reliably get stacks and probably won't be able to, while also not farming the jungle. You apply a bit of pressure, but get extremely behind because you're delaying your ramp up for a long time. High risk/High reward.
Also, Runeglaive was fine the way it was, Midlaners abusing it were the problem, not the item.

 

Definitely the old devour was wayyyyy better than this one. I don't know if Riot realizes at all, but the item can easily be abused.

 

I don't think it's as bad as it seems. Yes, devourer is a really strong item but you have to take into consideration the fact that unless the jungler runs teleport then he loses a lot of lane presence, which is hard to come back from.

 

It's too OP for an item. Yi, although not having made many kills early, if he's sated... damn, he can easily make pentas. I feel like it's a really unbalanced item, but again... I'm not representing Riot and I don't want to intervene into this balance stuff... seems to hard for me. xD

 

Well I mean look at the champs being banned since it came out, kayle, yi, shyvanna etc... are all huge bans, obviously since nothing was changed to the champs it has to be that devourer is broken, there really isn't a good ground for this item either its broken as fuck or useless.