Disrupts enemy positioning and disables them
Kunkka is always predicting where his enemies will go next. Able to attack a location with a geyser of water or a ghostly shipwreck, should his aim prove true, he and his allies will have no trouble cleaning up whatever is left.
Win Rate 49.1%
Pick Rate 4.5%
Attributes
648 +79.2/lvl
291 +21.6/lvl
24 +3.6/lvl
14 +1.6/lvl
18 +1.8/lvl
Stats
Damage:
54 - 60 + 3.6/level (172 - 178 at level 30)
Range:
150
Armor:
4.3 + 0.3/level (14.4 at level 30)
Movement:
315
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Facets
High Tide
Win Rate: 48.9%
Pick Rate: 79.3%
Tidebringer cooldown is reduced per enemy hero it hits.
Grog Blossom
Win Rate: 49.8%
Pick Rate: 20.7%
When X Marks the Spot returns its target, nearby allies gain Ghostship's improved Admiral's Rum buff.
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
PASSIVE: Breakable
Damage from enemy heroes, buildings, or Roshan that would reduce Kunkka below a threshold causes him to douse himself with The Admiral's Rum, receiving bonus movement speed and a delayed reaction to incoming damage.
Stacks additively with other sources of Admiral's Rum
HEALTH THRESHOLD: 65%
DAMAGE DELAYED: 20%
RUM DURATION: 6
RUM BONUS SPEED: 10%
60
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +15% Rum Damage Delay
LEVEL 10 TALENT: -15s Admiral's Rum Cooldown
Torrent
AFFECTS: Area
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
Summons a rising torrent that, after a short delay, hurls enemy units into the sky, stunning, dealing damage and slowing movement speed.
The initial bubble effect is only visible to allies and provides vision in fog of war.
Units tossed in the air will be stunned and still able to be attacked.
RADIUS: 250
MOVE SLOW: -40%
SLOW DURATION: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
STUN DURATION: 1.4
DELAY: 1.6 / 1.6 / 1.6 / 1.6
DAMAGE: 80 / 160 / 240 / 320
16 / 14 / 12 / 10
90
1300
LEVEL 20 TALENT: -4s Torrent Cooldown
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +25% Torrent Damage/Knock Up Duration
An ancestral rush of water explodes from the center of the world, called upon by the Admiral.
Tidebringer
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Physical
PASSIVE: No
Kunkka's legendary sword grants increased damage and cleaves a large area of effect in front of him for a single strike.
CLEAVE RANGE: 650 / 800 / 950 / 1100
DAMAGE BONUS: 35 / 70 / 105 / 140
CLEAVE DAMAGE: 150%
HERO HIT COOLDOWN REDUCTION: 0
13 / 10 / 7 / 4
150
FACET: High Tide
Tidebringer cooldown is reduced per enemy hero it hits.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +120% Tidebringer Cleave Damage
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +70 Tidebringer Damage
LEVEL 10 TALENT: Tidebringer applies 60% slow for 1s
PATCH 7.38c
Damage Bonus increased from 30/60/90/120 to 35/70/105/140
A lost Claddish soul inhabits Kunkka's trusty Tidebringer, empowering it to destroy demons of the Cataract.
X Marks the Spot
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
BUFF: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Targets a friendly or enemy Hero, marks their position with an X, and returns them to it after several seconds. Kunkka can trigger the return at any time during the duration. Lasts twice as long on allied heroes.
Interrupts channeling spells.
ENEMY DELAY: 3
ALLIED DELAY: 6
RUM SPLASH RADIUS: 0
RUM DURATION: 0
30 / 24 / 18 / 12
50
550 / 700 / 850 / 1000
FACET: Grog Blossom
When X Marks the Spot returns its target, nearby allies gain Ghostship's Damage Delay buff.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +15% Rum Damage Delay
The Admiral's set of arcane abilities includes some that can be used for battle as well as entertainment.
Ghostship
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Summons a ghostly ship that sails through the battle before smashing apart, damaging and stunning all enemies caught near the wreckage. Allied heroes touched by the Ghostship are given a strong swig of The Admiral's Rum, receiving bonus movement speed and a delayed reaction to incoming damage.
Damage dealt after Rum wears off is non-lethal and can never kill a hero.
Actual area of effect of ship's collision is larger than the boat itself.
The boat has a movement speed of 650.
IMPACT DELAY: 3.1
RANGE: 2000
WIDTH: 450
RUM BONUS SPEED: 15%
RUM DURATION: 10
STUN DURATION: 1.2
DAMAGE DELAYED: 35%
90 / 80 / 70
125 / 175 / 225
1000
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +15% Rum Damage Delay
The final ship of the Claddish Navy is nothing but a phantom, but it is all too real to the enemies of the Admiral.
Return
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
Returns the marked hero to the X.
1
Tidal Wave
Shard grants new ability
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Releases a Tidal Wave that spawns behind Kunkka. Deals damage and drags enemies along it for the duration. Enemies cannot attack while being dragged.
SPEED: 700
RADIUS: 750
DAMAGE: 180
DURATION: 1
KNOCKBACK DISTANCE: 600
12
75
1400
Talents [E]
+120% Tidebringer Cleave Damage
+100 Spell AoE
+ 4.6 %
+15% Rum Damage Delay
-4s Torrent Cooldown
+ 0.3 %
+70 Tidebringer Damage
+25% Torrent Damage/Knock Up Duration
+ 2.7 %
-15s Admiral's Rum Cooldown
+ 0.2 %
Tidebringer applies 60% slow for 1s
Win Rate
Pick Rate
PATCH 7.38
Level 10 Talent +25% X Marks the Spot Move Speed replaced with -15s Admiral's Rum Cooldown
Strategy
On early levels, make sure Tidebringer hits the opponents as that is your main laning tool.
Ideally, you want to cleave off of a creep with Tidebringer for maximum damage.
You can do X Marks the Spot into teleport to fountain to replenish yourself or allies.
Ask your allies to stack for you as you can easily clear those with level 4 Tidebringer.
Torrent provides vision so you can scout pillars for wards or Roshan pit.
You can stack some of the neutral camps by using Torrent two seconds before the minute mark hits.
Make sure to activate Armlet if you have one before using Tidebringer.
Maximum value combo: X Mark, Ghostship, activate X Mark, Torrent after Ghostship lands into Tidebringer.
In fights, if possible align Ghostship in such way that it goes over most of your allies for Rum buff.
In fights, position yourself to cleave with Tidebringer on as many enemy heroes as possible.
X Mark yourself and run forward to kill a dangerous wave with Tidebringer if opponents don't have Eul's.
Counter Strategy
Kunkka's sword will be glowing when Tidebringer is ready. Play on the side not to get cleaved.
Kunkka will raise his sword when casting Torrent. Look to make a sharp turn.
Kunkkas Ghostship allows allied heroes that were underneath it to delay 35% damage taken.
Avoid fighting in choke spots and clumping up against Torrent and Ghostship.
Eul's Scepter is great at stopping X Marks the Spot pullback.
Lore
As The Admiral of the mighty Claddish Navy, Kunkka was charged with protecting the isles of his homeland when the demons of the Cataract made a concerted grab at the lands of men. After years of small sorties, and increasingly bold and devastating attacks, the demon fleet flung all its carnivorous ships at the Trembling Isle. Desperate, the Suicide-Mages of Cladd committed their ultimate rite, summoning a host of ancestral spirits to protect the fleet. Against the demons, this was just barely enough to turn the tide.
As Kunkka watched the demons take his ships down one by one, he had the satisfaction of wearing away their fleet with his ancestral magic. But at the battle's peak, something in the clash of demons, men and atavistic spirits must have stirred a fourth power that had been slumbering in the depths. The waves rose up in towering spouts around the few remaining ships, and Maelrawn the Tentacular appeared amid the fray. His tendrils wove among the ships, drawing demon and human craft together, churning the water and wind into a raging chaos.
What happened in the crucible of that storm, none may truly say. The Cataract roars off into the void, deserted by its former denizens. Kunkka is now The Admiral of but one ship, a ghostly rig which endlessly replays the final seconds of its destruction. Whether he died in that crash is anyone's guess. Not even Tidehunter, who summoned Maelrawn, knows for sure.