Is Poacher Dirk a "forgotten item"?

dolphinosplash24·Apr 23, 2017·3 votes·457 views

I thought this was and interesting item when it first came out because you saved gold as well as taking enemy farm. But now i cant really name any junglers building lethality besides maybe kha'zix because tankier builds are just much more funtional. I guess assassin mid laners or adc's could get it but going into the enemy jg might be too risky for them especially adcs. Is it a forgotten a useless item like

6 Comments

OtherworldzApr 23, 20172 votes

The cooldown is just too long

I shouldn't have to wander in and out of the enemies jungle 3 times in perfect succession without dying and still being useful to my team to upgrade it in a reasonable amount of time. I can easily just wander into the enemy jungle once and kill the enemy jungler and make up the gold difference and outright buy the serrated dirk.

RengoooApr 23, 20171 votes

That item is still in the game? I hadn't noticed :/

ErockandrollApr 23, 20171 votes

The whole theme of Poaching is kinda niche to begin with, so naturally an item centered around poaching, is going to be niche in of itself.

Of coarse their is the issue of "it's only useful on AD burst/Assassins" Is that because Riot thought it should be an Assassin function? Or maybe they just used Assassins first to test the concept. I don't know.

TeémòApr 23, 20171 votes

It's a nice niche item, but it's gutted by it's own strength. With so much heavy jungle pressure in the early game where example: "lee sin" the teemo of the jungle can early invade without worry and make that sejuani feel like there's nothing for her to contribute tell 6. He already has the jungle timers of the ones he counter jungled so now he just buys it and tries to repeat. If it didn't have a cooldown it would make jungle even more feast or famine and force many junglers to either play the #1 and #2 best junglers or afk in base because if they aren't lee sin then nobody cares about them.