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Kent's Kunkka
Topic Started: Jul 29 2012, 04:31 PM (39 Views)
UofKentucky

Since moving back to Ohio from Kentucky I am bored. Hence another guide.

Kunkka is a godlike hero. Here you will learn to go godlike.

The first thing I have to say is if you can get shadow demon to be your lane mate, do it. It is absolutely retardly OP and is arguably the strongest lane in dota. I will come back to this.

Contents: (reasoning posted at the end of each section)
A) Skill build
B) Item Build
C) Strategy
D) OP heros to have on your team

A) Skill build
1) Torrent or tb. If going for FB pick torrent, otherwise tb
2) Tb or torrent, whichever u didnt just get
3) After levels one and two pick tide/torrent depending on what you need. Max tidebringer for farming purposes. If you have a good lane mate and can focus on getting hero kills that is better than cs'ing and you should max torrent first
4) tide/torrent
5) tide/torrent
6) ship
7) tide/torrent
8 ) tide/torrent
9) tide/torrent
10) X
11) Ship
12) X
13) X
14) x
15) stats
16) ship
17-25) stats

I can?t say whether I max tide or torrent first most games as it alternates, sometimes I level them both evenly, it is situational. I do not get X first because you DO NOT NEED IT if you know how to land torrent Which I will explain under strategy. X can be nice vs a blinker though early.

Leaving X level two I think is stupid (no offense to anyone). Upgrading X for the extra cast range is completely necessary and stupid to pass up. You will miss a lot of kills if you do not have this extra cast range. All you have to do to land torrent/x with a lvl 4 X is count to two. I hope anyone can manage that (make it a relatively quick two don?t pull a one one thousand two onethousand cuz torrent will proc to late; you?ll get the hang of it after one game). Than just hit X to send them back.

B) Item Build
1) Starting Items
RoR
Tango
Courier (if you can get someone else on your team to buy this good, I find myself buying the courier 85% of games or more)

2) After getting your starting items rush a soul ring. This item is godly on kunkka. Just cast it before you torrent and you essentially never run out of mana. Also if your fortunate enough to be laning with shadow demon make sure he rushes one also.

3) Boots ? Phase boots

4) Claymore ? quarter staff ? lothars

5) Crystalis/buriza

6) after buriza it is up to you. Good items include:
Selling PB for BoT
Mass Bfuries
Refresher
(I normally mass bfuries for the lol crit/splash ultra keelz)

Reasoning: Buying PB is explained under strategy. Soul ring is so you can cast infinite torrents and not have mana problems. Lothars is for the crit/xt splash/escape mechanism/extra movespeed/ganking etc. Buriza is for huge splash crits with tidebringer to do mass AOE dmg in teamfights. Other items suggested are for the exact same reason except BoT?s which help you with mobility.

C) Strategy
1) Early Game (1-9)
You are leveling torrent/tide. Use Phase boots to run through creeps so you can aim tide anywhere you need to too harass enemy heros and easily cs.
This is a way how you effectively land torrent w/o X. They key is to be out of sight while you cast it for the record. It has an enormous cast range so you can do it from behind trees, way behind creep line etc.
You obv need to be able to predict where the enemy hero is going to be. Learning your opponents playstyle as the match progresses is key. Almost everyone is going to go for the last hit. This is when it is best to use torrent. When you know that enemy mellee hero is going to be running up to the creep to try to last hit it cast torrent from out of sight early enough that itll proc before he can get that last hit. This will effectively prevent him from getting cs, disable him, and harass him. Same goes for ranged, except they will generally be around their druid/necro which is where you need to cast torrent.
During the two seconds while you wait for torrent to proc run up to them to wack em while they are disabled or deny the creep; whatever floats your boat.
This is a good way to cast torrent even after the laning phase as long as the enemy hero does not know your presence for a gank.
This is how you effectively land boat without X. I taught you how to land torrent w/o X. Boat is extremely easy to land once you learn how to land torrent. I hope everyone knows boat does not land where you cast it, but lands at a set distance in the direction you cast it. Here is the secret. OK so you casted torrent out of their range of site which is a good enough distance away (conveniently the distance you need to be away to land boat OMG ROFL SOI). Wait a second after you cast torrent. Once you see and KNOW torrent is going to land, cast boat. Torrent will have them disabled/slowed for the duration it takes for boat to him them. Few heros can evade this combo after being hit by torrent, blinkers for instance.
For the record. Make sure your teammates know you are going to initiate with torrent/boat if you are doing a gank. It is extremely frustrating when you are about to land a perfect boat/torrent but your pub runs up and scares the hero back just before your moves proc and waste everything and the guy lives. Also, make sure you use soul ring before you torrent so you have mana when needed, unless you are very low hp.

2) Mid-game
Really the fundamentals taught in early game are core to your success as playing the hero kunkka. Master them and you shall be a god. On to the few differences in mid-game
You should have lothars now. After you cast your boat/torrent that you are going to land since u read my guide on how to do it, activate lothars. Once they get disabled run up and wack whichever enemy will hit the most enemy heros with splash to do the max amount of burst damage.
You also should have X at this point. Normally I do not use X to intiate a teamfight because once the enemy sees X they all know what is coming and split up. I use X to pick off lone heros and always land that torrent, cancel tp?s, kinda like glimpse, prevent an enemy from chasing a hero to save him, and to prevent enemy heros from blinking away for up to four seconds (or sending them right back after they blink if their LoL scrubs).

3) Late-game
No different strategy from mid-game except you have better items and do more burst damage.
This has been mentioned in other guides. Kunkka is not a tank despite being a str hero. He is a massive burst dmg AOE hero.

4) OP heros to have on your team:
Shadow Demon ? laning with this guy is just retarded OP. Shadow demon banishes, you cast torrent SHORTLY thereafter. SD?s banish lasts 2.5 seconds and torrent takes two seconds to proc. Act accordingly. SD should get the amp dmg skill if he is laning with you and has a brain. Make sure he gets a soul ring and you guys can do this every wave. Almost no hero can stand the harassment. The only one I can think of ATM is windrunner b/c she can do evade attacks after disabled. But ya the disable/amp dmg/images/slow is just rape.

OD & banish and lots of dps. Nuff' said.

Enigma and Magnus --> I shouldnt need to explain this but I will. They jump in and ulti pulling everyone together. You intelligently wait a little bit until their disables are almost over so you don?t waste disable time. Than you cast torrent/boat and hit everyone.
A lot of other hero's but I don?t want to type anymore.
Edited by UofKentucky, Jul 29 2012, 10:08 PM.
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