Attacker, one of Dota 2’s most popular pubstars, whose streams of masterful Kunkka performances brought him into prominence, thinks the hero is in an awful state after Patch 7.36. He vows not to touch the hero before it receives a meaningful buff or rework in a future patch.
While Attacker didn’t specify in his May 27 stream what makes Kunkka feel like an “awful hero” now, we can assume the recent X Mark duration change plays a huge part, as it has for several other players who chimed in their frustrations in a May 29 thread in the Dota 2 subreddit. “They’ve nerfed him in the most unfun way possible, ruined his X timings, nerfed his primary skillshot, literally [did not give] him an innate after level 1 or 2,” said one player.