Strength · Melee
Disrupts enemy positioning and disables them
Win rate
49.1%
B across all ranks
Pick rate
4.8%
of public matches
Public picks
163.1K
in the sample
Pro scene
1
4 bans · 0% win rate
Bars start at 50%. Sample sizes: Herald 3.7K · Guardian 11.8K · Crusader 22.4K · Archon 36.7K · Legend 44.2K · Ancient 27.3K · Divine+ 16.9K.
Last 6 days
49.3%
Bought before the horn
Iron Branch
Gauntlets of Strength
Circlet
Tango
Quelling Blade
Observer Ward
The first minutes
Bracer
Boots of Speed
Chainmail
Phase Boots
Core items
Black King Bar
Claymore
Aghanim's Scepter
Aghanim's Shard
The full build
Shiva's Guard
Aghanim's Scepter
Black King Bar
Daedalus
Scythe of Vyse
Reaver
Most-bought items for Kunkka in OpenDota’s sample of parsed public matches (1,696 purchases counted). Bars compare each item with the most-bought one in its phase. The percentage is the win rate in games where Kunkka bought the item by minute 30 (green or red when it is clearly above or below Kunkka’s average). Teams that are ahead buy items sooner, so a high number shows the item goes with winning games, not that it causes the win. Items with fewer than 100 games show no percentage. Cheap components are hidden from the mid and late game.
Sacred Relic
95 games
Blade Mail
118 games
Aghanim's Scepter
142 games
Radiance
101 games
Mithril Hammer
75 games
Shiva's Guard
82 games
Platemail
140 games
Black King Bar
190 games
Final items compared within the same purchase window (at least 60 games each), so they are not simply ranked by how late or expensive they are. Still a correlation: a team that is far ahead can buy anything sooner.
55
Use: Plant Tree: Targets the ground to plant a happy little tree that lasts for 20 seconds.
140
155
90
Use: Devour: Consumes a target tree to gain 7 health regeneration for 16 seconds. Consuming an Ironwood Tree doubles the heal duration. Comes with 3 charges.
100
Active: Chop Tree: Destroy a target tree.
4s
Active: Chop Tree. Destroy a target tree.
Passive: Quell. Increases attack damage against non-hero units by 8 for melee heroes, and 4 for ranged.
0
Use: Plant: Plants an Observer Ward, an invisible watcher that gives ground vision in a 1600 radius to your team. Lasts 6 minutes.
1s
Use: Plant. Plants an Observer Ward, an invisible watcher that gives ground vision in a 1600 radius to your team. Lasts 6 minutes. Hold Control to give one Observer Ward to an allied hero.
505
500
Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
500
1,450
Active: Phase: Gives 20% increased movement speed on melee heroes, and 10% on ranged heroes, and lets you move through units and turn more quickly for 3 seconds.
Win rate when bought50.7% · 702 games
8s
Active: Phase. Gives 20% increased movement speed on melee heroes, and 10% on ranged heroes, and lets you move through units and turn more quickly for 3 seconds. Movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack.
4,050
Active: Avatar: Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage.
Win rate when bought56.2% · 233 games
95s50
Active: Avatar. Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% magic resistance and immunity to reflected and pure damage. For the duration of the effect, any negative effect from enemy spells has no effect. Duration: 9 / 8 / 7s Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
1,350
4,200
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades the ultimate, and some abilities, of all heroes.
Win rate when bought55.4% · 428 games
1,400
Passive: Ability Upgrade: Upgrades an existing ability or adds a new ability to your hero.
Win rate when bought59.0% · 268 games
4,500
Active: Arctic Blast: Emits a freezing wave that deals 225 magical damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4 seconds. Radius: 825
27s75
Active: Arctic Blast. Emits a freezing wave that deals 225 magical damage to enemies and slows their movement by -40% for 4 seconds. Radius: 825
Passive: Freezing Aura. Reduces the attack speed of all enemies by -40. Radius: 1200
5,200
Passive: Critical Strike: Grants each attack a 30% chance to deal 225% damage.
Passive: Critical Strike. Grants each attack a 30% chance to deal 225% damage.
5,200
Active: Hex: Turns a target unit into a harmless critter for 2.8 seconds. The target has a base movement speed of 140 and will be silenced, muted, and disarmed.
20s250
Active: Hex. Turns a target unit into a harmless critter for 2.8 seconds. The target has a base movement speed of 140 and will be silenced, muted, and disarmed. Instantly destroys illusions.
2,800
Summons a rising torrent that, after a short delay, hurls enemy units into the sky, stunning, dealing damage and slowing movement speed.
Kunkka's legendary sword grants increased damage and cleaves a large area of effect in front of him for a single strike.
Targets a friendly or enemy Hero, marks their position with an X, and returns them to it after several seconds. Kunkka can trigger the return at any time during the duration. Lasts twice as long on allied heroes.
Damage from enemy heroes, buildings, or Roshan that would reduce Kunkka below 65% threshold causes him to douse himself with The Admiral's Rum, receiving bonus movement speed and a delayed reaction to 18% of incoming damage for 5s.
Releases a Tidal Wave that spawns behind Kunkka. Deals damage and drags enemies along it. Enemies cannot attack while being dragged.
Summons a ghostly ship that sails through the battle before smashing apart, damaging and stunning all enemies caught near the wreckage. Allied heroes touched by the Ghostship are given a 2x strong swig of The Admiral's Rum.
Aghanim’s ScepterGhostship creates a fleet of 2 ships at the target point on a 2.5 second interval. Each ship now also fires 3 waves of cannonballs from the port and starboard side that deal 40% of Ghostship's damage as they pass through enemies.
+100 Spell Area of Effect
25Tidebringer Ignores 25% Armor
-4s Torrent Cooldown
20+80% Tidebringer Cleave Damage
+25% Torrent Damage/Knock Up Duration
15+75 Tidebringer Damage
+1s Admiral's Rum Buff Duration
10Tidebringer applies 60% slow for 1s
Strength24+3.6/lvl
Agility14+1.6/lvl
Intelligence18+1.8/lvlAs The Admiral of the mighty Claddish Navy, Kunkka was charged with protecting the isles of his homeland when the demons of the Cataract made a concerted grab at the lands of men. After years of small sorties, and increasingly bold and devastating attacks, the demon fleet flung all its carnivorous ships at the Trembling Isle. Desperate, the Suicide-Mages of Cladd committed their ultimate rite, summoning a host of ancestral spirits to protect the fleet. Against the demons, this was just barely enough to turn the tide. As Kunkka watched the demons take his ships down one by one, he had the satisfaction of wearing away their fleet with his ancestral magic. But at the battle's peak, something in the clash of demons, men and atavistic spirits must have stirred a fourth power that had been slumbering in the depths. The waves rose up in towering spouts around the few remaining ships, and Maelrawn the Tentacular appeared amid the fray. His tendrils wove among the ships, drawing demon and human craft together, churning the water and wind into a raging chaos. What happened in the crucible of that storm, none may truly say. The Cataract roars off into the void, deserted by its former denizens. Kunkka is now The Admiral of but one ship, a ghostly rig which endlessly replays the final seconds of its destruction. Whether he died in that crash is anyone's guess. Not even Tidehunter, who summoned Maelrawn, knows for sure.
Win rates come from public Dota 2 matches (OpenDota), 3.4M matches counted, refreshed Oct 24, 2026. Tiers use the win rate in the chosen rank: S 52.5%+, A 51%+, B 49%+, C 47.5%+, D below; heroes with too few games are left unrated. Hero data and patch notes are Valve’s. Builds Forge is an unofficial fan site, not affiliated with Valve.