Poachers Knife Buffs?

jamestheroman·8/8/2015, 8:12:04 PM·3 votes·555 views

so we all know Poachers is a 3rd tier item, what i propose is small buffs to the item to make it worth buying.

Movement Speed- every time you kill a large monster in the enemy jungle you gain permanent movement speed stacks (similar to Nasus q) this buff provides stats that are good on any champion and gives more benefits to smiting away the enemy's jungle

Poachers Stacks- something similar to Rengar's bonetooth necklace; every time you smite a large monster in the enemy jungle you receive a Poachers Stack. at different levels of stacks you get different bonuses

5 stacks- Bonus gold for smiting enemy jungle camps (replacing the standard 20) 10 stacks- Bonus Movement speed given per smite kill in the enemy jungle 20 stacks- increased smite range 35 stacks- increases duration of jungle camp buff per smite (Example: +25% duration onto buffs such as Red, Blue, Baron, 5th Dragon) OR now gives the item an active that leaves steal wards on a charge system

These buffs would provide an aggressive counter the the current devourer playstyle by rewarding counter-jungling and making it a viable item to some of the stronger champions for invasion. this is a risky playstyle however if pulled off well you can receive extreme benefits.

5 Comments

AtheosisX8/8/2015, 8:15:58 PM2 votes

You would need to cap the bonus movement speed (maybe at 60 with each large monster smited giving 5 movement speed?), but otherwise that's a pretty good idea. The stacking mechanic might be cool too, though I don't think it's a good idea to give even more movement speed. I particularly like the idea of extended buff durations. Also you will never smite 35 large monsters in the enemy jungle so your stack totals need to be seriously adjusted downwards.

Posui Gart8/8/2015, 8:17:39 PM1 votes

Just make it oneshot whole enemy jungle pack(except buff creeps, they should take something like 3x smite damage), and take away MS buff. And Maybe this should increase respawn timer for that pack for 50%

Crowe Stalker8/8/2015, 8:17:40 PM1 votes

Riot said they'll work on it next season, don't know where but I remember seeing a Red talk about it.