Making Poacher's and Stalker's Worth the Buy

Rebonack·Nov 24, 2014·2 votes·389 views

Poacher's Knife now has its benefits trigger on any monster camp, not just the ones in the enemy jungle. Additionally, give it an OnDamage true damage buff to you that only triggers on Monsters. This would cement it as the item to buy if you want to improve your clear time and generate gold faster, but don't really care about the extra sustain offered by Ranger's.

Make Stalker's get some degree of cooldown reduction if you get a kill or assist on the champion you smote with it. That would help to better emphasize its role as the ganking upgrade.

4 Comments

HexTechBomberNov 24, 20142 votes

Actually I think instead of making Poacher's do the same among yours and enemies how bout lower benefit in yours but higher in the enemy. Kinda like the thrill of the kill idea. Better when in danger, not so much when it's easy.

KrfinNov 25, 20141 votes

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Gray FanchonDec 1, 20141 votes

I like your Stalker's Blade idea - goodness knows there's been times when I used it to get or enable a kill, only to realize Dragon was up in twenty seconds. :D; It would certainly encourage more liberal use of the smite on other players, I think.

The Poacher's Knife sounds overpowered, though. This jungle upgrade lets me clear my jungle faster than my opponent by default, and gives me extra gold for doing so - I can't imagine why I'd want Ranger's Trailblazer then unless I was on a champion whose clearing wasn't good already, and even then it would feel like taking a worse option. Even just taking any other jungle item would ensure I was slower than my opposition.

The point of Poacher's Knife isn't to improve clear time, it's to facilitate a style of jungling based around hit-and-run thieving in the opposition's jungle. Maybe the damage buff could apply to jungle monsters in the enemy jungle only? That would certainly make counterjungling easier, and give one a reason to take it over Stalker or Skirmisher.

Hullabaloo907Dec 1, 20141 votes

They are nerfing the other two, so these two might be seen more. I think poachers will always be situational, basically made to pick up against champs you need to counter jungle.