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 52.2%
Pick Rate 7.3%
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 (172.4 - 178.4 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: 51.4%
Pick Rate: 61.6%
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: 53.4%
Pick Rate: 38.4%
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
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: 10
RUM BONUS SPEED: 10%
60
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +15% Rum Damage Delay
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
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
16 / 14 / 12 / 10
90
1300
- +20% Torrent Damage/Knock Up Duration
- -4s Torrent Cooldown
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%
13 / 10 / 7 / 4
150
- Tidebringer applies 60% slow for 60s
- +60 Tidebringer Damage
- +100% Tidebringer Cleave Damage
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
30 / 24 / 18 / 12
50
550 / 700 / 850 / 1000
- +25% X Marks the Spot Move Speed
- +15% Rum Damage Delay
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%
80 / 70 / 60
125 / 175 / 225
1000
- +15% Rum Damage Delay
Return
Returns the marked hero to the X.
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
12
75
1400
Talents
+n/a% Tidebringer Cleave Damage
+100 Spell AoE
+ 5.6 %
+15% Rum Damage Delay
-4s Torrent Cooldown
+ 0.3 %
+60 Tidebringer Damage
+20% Torrent Damage/Knock Up Duration
+ 3.5 %
+25% X Marks the Spot Move Speed
+ 0.8 %
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.