3/4 of the jungle upgrades have seen significant popularity.

Franco Sanchez·5/16/2015, 3:12:39 AM·25 votes·1,582 views

So when is Poacher's Knife gonna receive some love?

Chilling Smite was the standard for a while, Challenging smite saw fringe cases of being very strong (looking at you WW) and recent popularity, and Blasting Smite was very popular on release and is still seen on low sustain/clear junglers. But outta preseason with people testing smites, I've yet to see anybody build a Poacher's knife.

What if, instead of getting relatively small gold bonuses and an inconsequential movement speed buff, you actually got some significant temporary buffs? Or some kind of stacking passive (smite damage, resists, increased gold gains, etc) that got better every time you successfully counter-jungled an enemy camp?

Anyways, I love the diversity that the new jungle items have brought. I'd just like to see a buff/change that would give Scavenging smite something a little more meaningful.

13 Comments

BringYourOwnPuma5/16/2015, 3:17:38 AM7 votes

The problem with Poacher's is the second you buy it, it paints a target on you.

SH Azykan5/16/2015, 5:59:23 AM6 votes

Give it some kind of vision control. That is literally all it needs. Make it where every time you smite a large monster on either side it gets a charge. It can then be viable for people that aren't even counter jungling. It removes the instant target on you (as you could just be using it in place of like sightstone in your own jungle) and lets it help with counter jungling if that is your goal (you need vision to effectively do it anyways)

It can give a ward similar to item 3363 where it isn't target-able by your team and only has 1 hp and a kinda short lifespan, like 90 seconds. That would be enough to where I would buy it simply for that extra control.

TotalJerk5/17/2015, 12:21:38 AM3 votes

Poacher's knife deserves no love, it needs to be put out of it's misery and replaced.

Sirsir5/17/2015, 12:49:39 AM2 votes

Poachers will need an overhaul to be useful. Once someone noticed you have it they start warding your jungle and most times that ends up with you feeding them a kill

Blue Collar Bear5/16/2015, 3:15:37 AM1 votes

Are you talking like a quasi-Nunu consume? Because that would be awesome!

Nimba5/23/2015, 4:22:10 AM1 votes

I wanna use Poachers on Shyvana so badly but it's really not even worth.