Some suggestion for Poachers Knife's changes
Hi guys and Riot, of all the four jungle items, poachers knife is the only one that made me felt like isn't as balanced as the other jungle blade and requires some buff. So riot wanted to give players to have different styles of gameplay in jungle role so created the 4 unique jungle blade.
- Stalker's Blade - increase gank success rate
- Ranger's trailblazer - increase sustain and faster jungle farming
- Skirmishers blade - increase 1v1 dual ability
- Poachers blade - increase counter jungle ability
Every jungle item except poachers knife are excellent, they provided the ability for junglers to either have a higher success rate in ganking/dualing or increase your farming speed if you needed to catch up on experience. Poachers knife gave you the ability to take away enemies jungler camps and gain half charges of smite + 20 bonus gold and 175% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds, however you do not seen them very often in games.
The reason behind this is because in this meta of patch 5.1, jungler cannot afford to take risk of getting killed and lose experience. Counter jungle in this meta is not as much rewarding compares to gank lanes successfully and snowball the whole team. Even though counter jungle is a great way to deny enemy junglers farm, deny enemies blue/red buff and escapes safely but junglers are also taking the risk of getting into a 1v1 fight with the enemies junglers or even worse getting into a 1v2 or 1v3 from their top mid or bot lanes. Taking a higher risk means higher reward is expected. however if enemies are taking stalkers blades or skirmishers, your chance of winning the enemies champion are lower when you are taking poachers knife (can't smite enemy champions)
Poacher's knife: target enemy champions reducing their damage dealt by 20% for 3 seconds. increase 175% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds if enemy has been killed.
this way poachers knife have the ability not also to counter jungle enemies camp but also have the ability to gank enemy junglers in their jungle and deny their experience. and poachers knife would then be defines as the role "to focus on invading enemy jungle camp" and skirmishers would be a good counter item "to defend jungle invade" due to skirmishers can also reduces 20% damage reduction but also dealt true damage to enemies on basic attacks.