Talk:Devourer/@comment-26034614-20150331175820/@comment-15667791-20150421192710

It was OP at that high for early game stats already, and then climbed well above that. 40 damage is the same as Warrior, and Devourer works off of magic damage, where most characters have high Armor, low MR. Add 50% attack speed to the mix at a 1500 gold value (rest of Warrior is valued at less than 1337, the cost of Brutalizer)... it's just fine where it is. The problem is that most melee champions don't use attack speed as well as ranged, and Yis and Nocturnes keep using it, where it'd fit way better combined with Runaan's Hurricane on Urgots, Teemos, and Kayles, which would be challenging, but that's still quite viable since early counter-jungling has softened a lot this season with the insane amount of risk added to the first clear. If a jungler gets sighted and stomped, he may never come back from it. This creates a lot of safety for ranged junglers to get in the mix, and they would become OP with an item like this with no ceiling and Runaan's.