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Kunkka

Popularity: #81

Leaderboard: #79

Ban Rank: #100

KDA Rank: #22

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 49.0%
Pick Rate 5.1%
Attributes
Kunkka Image

648 +79.2/lvl

291 +21.6/lvl

Strength Image

24 +3.6/lvl

Agility Image

14 +1.6/lvl

Intelligence Image

18 +1.8/lvl

Stats
Attack

Damage:

54 - 60 + 3.6/level (172.4 - 178.4 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

150

Attack

Armor:

4.3 + 0.3/level (14.4 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

315

Roles

Carry

Durable

Nuker

Pusher

Support

Escape

Disabler

Initiator

Facets

High Tide

Win Rate: 48.3%

Pick Rate: 68.0%

Tidebringer cooldown is reduced per enemy hero it hits.


Tidebringer

Tidebringer cooldown is reduced per enemy hero it hits.

HERO HIT COOLDOWN REDUCTION: 0.8

Grog Blossom

Win Rate: 50.5%

Pick Rate: 32.0%

When X Marks the Spot returns its target, nearby allies gain Ghostship's improved Admiral's Rum buff.


X Marks the Spot

When X Marks the Spot returns its target, nearby allies gain Ghostship's Damage Delay buff.

RUM SPLASH RADIUS: 400

RUM DURATION: 3

Abilities

Innate Ability Image
Admiral's Rum

BREAKABLE: Yes


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%

Cooldown

60


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LEVEL 20 TALENT: +15% Rum Damage Delay


PATCH 7.37d

Rum Duration decreased from 10s to 6s

PATCH 7.37
  • New Innate ability. Passive, can't be leveled up

  • Taking damage from a hero, building, or Roshan that would reduce Kunkka below 65% health automatically triggers Admiral’s Rum over 10s, providing 10% bonus movement speed and delaying 20% of the damage taken. Delayed damage is dealt evenly over 10s once the buff ends. Stacks additively with other sources of Admiral’s Rum. Cooldown: 60s


Q

Torrent

Summons a rising torrent that, after a short delay, hurls enemy units into the sky, stunning, dealing damage and slowing movement speed.


RADIUS: 250

MOVE SLOW: -40%

STUN DURATION: 1.4

DAMAGE: 80 / 160 / 240 / 320

Cooldown

16 / 14 / 12 / 10

Mana Cost

90

Cast Range

1300


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  • +20% Torrent Damage/Knock Up Duration
  • -4s Torrent Cooldown

An ancestral rush of water explodes from the center of the world, called upon by the Admiral.
W

Tidebringer

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: 30 / 60 / 90 / 120

CLEAVE DAMAGE: 150%

Cooldown

13 / 10 / 7 / 4

Cast Range

150


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  • Tidebringer applies 60% slow for 60s
  • +60 Tidebringer Damage
  • +100% Tidebringer Cleave Damage

A lost Claddish soul inhabits Kunkka's trusty Tidebringer, empowering it to destroy demons of the Cataract.
E

X Marks the Spot

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.


ENEMY DELAY: 3

ALLIED DELAY: 6

Cooldown

30 / 24 / 18 / 12

Mana Cost

50

Cast Range

550 / 700 / 850 / 1000


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  • +25% X Marks the Spot Move Speed
  • +15% Rum Damage Delay

The Admiral's set of arcane abilities includes some that can be used for battle as well as entertainment.
R

Ghostship

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.


IMPACT DELAY: 3.1

RANGE: 2000

WIDTH: 450

RUM BONUS SPEED: 15%

RUM DURATION: 10

STUN DURATION: 1.2

DAMAGE DELAYED: 35%

Cooldown

90 / 80 / 70

Mana Cost

125 / 175 / 225

Cast Range

1000


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  • +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

Returns the marked hero to the X.


Cooldown

1


Tidal Wave

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

Cooldown

12

Mana Cost

75

Cast Range

1400


Talents

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+n/a% Tidebringer Cleave Damage

+100 Spell AoE

+ 5.0 %

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+15% Rum Damage Delay

-4s Torrent Cooldown

+ 0.9 %

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+60 Tidebringer Damage

+20% Torrent Damage/Knock Up Duration

+ 4.2 %

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+25% X Marks the Spot Move Speed

+ 1.1 %

Tidebringer applies 60% slow for 1s

Win Rate

Pick Rate

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.

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