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Dark Harvest is Riot's attempt at redeeming Feral Flare.

KAAAAAAAYN DO·9/28/2017, 10:08:50 AM·1 votes·2,344 views

To all of my OG jungle friends who remember feral flare (rip patch 4.5-4.20 may you blaze it in glory) It encourages junglers like Yi, Udyr, Kayn etc who love to farm early and scale, in some regards, into the game. However the main issues with feral flare were A) it was so underwhelming early that you had to stack it for the first 20 min of the game and if you didn't you were basically screwed B) it was so good late game you could just afk farm for the first 20-30 min and not get punished for it even if your team lost all lanes and finally C) it turned any jungler who bought it into an item reliant jungler how the earlier iterations of rageblade/bloodrazor pre changes. However DH also solves the key issues that these items created with their playstyles. While it does encourage farming to stack it's on hit damage you only get the benefit under certain conditions which only become relevant with lane presence and farming combined. I feel that this is actually a really good idea for a stacking keystone that can have such power.

11 Comments

Critmaster Garen9/28/2017, 10:36:51 AM2 votes

actually looking at it, i think dark harvest duration should start lower and scale up to last longer.

like 10 seconds lvl 1 to 40 seconds lvl 18.

reason is, early game it could cause a lot of pressure with a 20 second duration. lategame it could be too situational and reliant on nearby minions or monsters to be actually good.

you need to be able to pick up a soul and then possibly roam across the map past 30 minutes.

Critmaster Garen9/28/2017, 10:16:04 AM1 votes

how does dark harvest exactly work?

on their stream they said something that it stacks infinitely, but the description of the rune on their preseason page says, that the bonus damage falls off after 20 seconds.

edit.: oooh, never mind i understand.

the effect itself lasts only 20 seconds but the damage depends on how many souls you have previously collected.

Gildarzt9/28/2017, 10:18:16 AM1 votes

kayn?, kayn is not based on autos, warrior still better option.

Khristophoros9/28/2017, 12:00:32 PM1 votes

The current numbers suck for jungle farming. You gain souls faster by afk farming lane even pre-20 min when the spawn rate of cannon minions is lower.

You get by far the most from high body count teamfights though.

GrievousFetus10/5/2017, 3:13:22 PM1 votes

Currently the largest hurdle for dark harvest is the fact that you only gain the effect after collecting a stack. For laners that means 1 DH stack every 2 waves, for junglers that means 1 attack coming out of the jungle to gank, and then 1 stack to use on the enemy turret if the gank was successful.

Which means the ideal gank for DH is something like Kill laner using DH during a cannon wave > attack turret with DH > attack turret with a second DH when the turret kills your cannon (unless they changed it on the PBE, since I was hearing reports that ally cannon and champion deaths were counting as souls.)