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Idea for Poacher's Knife Buff!

Edbwn·2/24/2015, 6:20:26 AM·1 votes·857 views

Currently Poacher's Knife does this:

UNIQUE: Upgrades Smite to Scavenging Smite. If Scavenging Smite is used on a large monster in the enemy's jungle, you gain half a charge of smite. Upon killing the affected monster, you gain 20 bonus gold and 175% bonus movement speed that decays over 2 seconds.

What if they added something like this:

"Also, when an enemy champion passes by that camp they are slowed by X% for X seconds."

I dunno. I know people don't pick up Poacher's Knife since it's too risky compared to the other smites and the others all provide benefits that aren't nearly as situational, so one way to buff this item would be to make it less situational, but the above would be a buff that wouldn't make it any less situational, just increase the potential reward. What are your thoughts?

3 Comments

vIbvdOwbko2/24/2015, 6:30:08 AM2 votes

i always kind of wondered how funny it would be if poachers knife increased spawn timer of camps rofl. Like camps take 1 and a half minutes to spawn or something.

IcyPepper2/24/2015, 6:41:17 AM2 votes

"Also, when an enemy champion passes by that camp they are slowed by X% for X seconds."

It already speeds you up. If you get a speed boost AND a slow aura, not to mention that the best junglers for invading because they ran out of camps to afk farm in already have speed boosts (looking at you, MasterYi Udyr , shame on you for letting me gank your lanes to oblivion until you get raged at).

The thing is, it gives bonus gold already, half a charge of smite, AND a speed boost. It's balanced for the type of junglers who'd use it, aka the clearing invasion junglers who already excel at getting in and getting out without trouble. Chilling smite is for gank-happy junglers (Vi and J4), challenging smite is for duelist junglers (J4 and Irelia, for starters), and trailblazer is good for junglers who excel at everything but sustain or need faster clearing.