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Kunkka

Popularity: #107

Leaderboard: #120

Ban Rank: #104

KDA Rank: #66

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 44.1%
Pick Rate 3.1%
Attributes
kunkka Image

528 +79.2/lvl

216 +21.6/lvl

Strength Image

24 +3.6/lvl

Agility Image

14 +1.6/lvl

Intelligence Image

18 +1.8/lvl

Stats
Attack

Damage:

26 - 36 + 1.6/level (72.4 - 82.4 at level 30)

Attack

Range:

150

Attack

Armor:

2 + 0.3/level (10.7 at level 30)

Attack

Movement:

315

Roles

Carry

Escape

Nuker

Initiator

Durable

Disabler

Support

Pusher

Facets

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High Tide

Win Rate: 43.8%

Pick Rate: 80.2%

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

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Grog Blossom

Win Rate: 45.7%

Pick Rate: 19.8%

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

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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: 500/650/800/950/1100

DAMAGE BONUS: 10/30/60/90/120

CLEAVE DAMAGE: 150%

HERO HIT COOLDOWN REDUCTION: 0

Q

Torrent

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

  • AFFECTS:area

  • PASSIVE:No

  • DISPELLABLE:basic

  • radius:225

  • movespeed bonus:-40

  • slow duration:1 / 2 / 3 / 4

  • stun duration:1.4

  • delay:1.6 / 1.6 / 1.6 / 1.6

  • torrent damage:80 / 160 / 240 / 320

  • damage tick interval:0.2

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+20% Torrent Damage/Knock Up Duration

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-4s Torrent Cooldown

Cool Down

16 / 14 / 12 / 10

Mana Cost

100

W

Tidebringer

Kunkka's legendary sword grants increased damage and cleaves a large area of effect in front of him for a single strike.

  • AFFECTS:unit

  • PASSIVE:No

  • cleave starting width:150

  • cleave ending width:450 / 500 / 550 / 600 / 650

  • cleave distance:500 / 650 / 800 / 950 / 1100

  • damage bonus:10 / 30 / 60 / 90 / 120

  • cleave damage:150

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Tidebringer applies 60% slow for 1s

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+60 Tidebringer Damage

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+100% Tidebringer Cleave Damage

Cool Down

16 / 13 / 10 / 7 / 4

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.

  • AFFECTS:unit

  • PASSIVE:No

  • BUFF:yes

  • DEBUFF:yes

  • duration:3

  • allied duration:6

  • fow range:400

  • fow duration:5.94

  • movespeed bonus:15

  • ghostship absorb:35

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+25% X Marks the Spot Move Speed

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+15% Rum Damage Delay

Cool Down

30 / 24 / 18 / 12

Mana Cost

50

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 swig of The Admiral's Rum, receiving bonus movement speed and a delayed reaction to incoming damage.

  • PASSIVE:No

  • tooltip delay:3.1

  • ghostship distance:2000

  • ghostship width:450

  • movespeed bonus:15

  • buff duration:10

  • stun duration:1.2

  • ghostship speed:650

  • ghostship absorb:35

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+15% Rum Damage Delay

Cool Down

80 / 70 / 60

Mana Cost

125 / 175 / 225

Torrent Storm

Releases a visible Torrent in a random area within 1100 range of the target position once every 0.25 for 4 seconds.

  • AFFECTS:area

  • PASSIVE:No

  • torrent interval:0.25

  • torrent duration:4

  • torrent min distance:115

  • torrent max distance:1100

Cool Down

75

Mana Cost

275

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.

  • PASSIVE:No

  • DISPELLABLE:basic

  • DEBUFF:yes

  • speed:700

  • radius:750

  • damage:180

  • duration:1

  • knockback distance:600

Cool Down

12

Mana Cost

75

Talents

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Ghostship Fleet

+ 7.0 %

+100% Tidebringer Cleave Damage

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-4s Torrent Cooldown

+ 1.6 %

+15% Rum Damage Delay

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+20% Torrent Damage/Knock Up Duration

+ 5.1 %

+60 Tidebringer Damage

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+25% X Marks the Spot Move Speed

+ 2.0 %

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.

Kunkka's Ghostship allows allied heroes that were underneath it to delay 40% 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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