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Dark Harvest

Dark Harvest

Keystone · Cross-path keystone · 7.1e

Mechanics

Damaging a champion below 50% Health deals adaptive damage and harvests their soul, permanently increasing Dark Harvest's damage by 10. (20 second cooldown. Resets to 1 second on takedown.) Dark Harvest Damage: 40 + 10 per soul (+25% bonus AD +15% bonus AP)

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Commentary (7.1e)

Generated by /wr-extract rune-guide mode from 7.1e rune guide. Re-running OVERWRITES this section.

  • "But if you want to go full burst viego, then you can go something like empowerment, which is more of a burst rune than conqueror, which likes longer fights. If you're playing something that's snowballs heavy and resets, maybe you want to go dark harvest, right? This is your champion's identity and will usually be pretty standard." (04:59)
  • "Well, he goes to footwork because of of this specific interaction, Uh then there's champion. Someone actually brought a good point which is Jack said comet or dark harvest is good u on MF, right? MF is a champion that doesn't really have a clear room choice, right? She doesn't have a lot of attack speed, so empowerment doesn't make sense. She's not great at long fights, so conqueror doesn't make sense. Uh comet, you can actually proc very easy with her third ability, so it's one of the top choices, right? your first and third ability and proc from a huge range. First strike can make sense because her ulti opens up right away, but it's not great, especially non-range Dark Harvest makes a lot of sense, Um because you're getting the extra damage, which she loves. So, there are champions that don't really have a great rune that fits their identity." (06:41)
  • "Um, 35% bonus AD ratio. It says extra for some reason, but I'm pretty sure it means bonus cuz Dark Harvest is bonus, which means not your base AD, right? The AD that you buy afterwards. 20% AP ratio. So, electrocute is a very clear burst rune that you're going to take on burst champions. So, you might think of assassins for the most part, and it's currently competing against dark harvest, which is another rune you go on assassins, conqueror, which you go on like assassins that like longer fights, and first strike, which is also a burst rune that amplifies your burst damage, right? Who likes So, when you're think of electrocute, you're not thinking of it in a vacuum, right?" (14:27)
  • "They're like, "Oh, I like first strike now, but if something change, I'm happy to go to electrocute as well." So, that's something you need to consider. Next up, let's look at Dark Harvest. So, damaging a champion below 50% health, it deals adaptive damage, and harvesting their soul permanently increases Dark Harvest damage by 10. So, that has a 20 second cool down, but if you get a takedown, which is a killer and assist, it resets to 1 second." (17:55)
  • "Because junglers are constantly moving across the map. And very often whenever they're fighting, they're doing um they're getting a dark harvest rock because it's very rare that jungler will come and not even chunk you for 50% of your health. So every single gank, they're pretty much getting a stack. And if they get kill, they get another stack, right? And they kind of scale in the late game. Why don't they want electrocute instead? For example, actually electric isn't too bad in jungle, but when they open up in the scrimmage, you in the scrimmage, you usually want dark harvest or even first strike as a jungler because you're usually the one ganking. You're the one attacking first. So, you can proc first strike um very consistently. And with dark harvest, you kind of scale your damage. Now, there's some other champions that go for strike or that go dark harvest like Katarina is a great example of a great Dark Harvest user. She can go electrocute in certain matchups if she wants to have like an stronger early game. what you're not telling us what comp electric is good versus tanks or squishies." (18:21)
  • "Blue screen my goat. Uh, dark harvest is also very good against squishies, right? Because it has a a very strong base damage which uh with stacks." (19:43)
  • "It's more of an early game rune. Dark Harvest again will mostly be depending on the champion. Can you make good use of it? And mostly on junglers, but can be done on mid laners and ADCs a lot, right? MF is an example. Jin is an example of champions that can go dark harvest depending on what's going on, right? Um, but reset champions really like the Shun Katarina is obviously the best user of it." (20:17)
  • "So you reach your power spikes and you will snowball while still giving you That's kind of how you need to think about this rune. And of course, it competes with electrocute and dark harvest on assassins. Next up, let's talk about I think phase rush because uh you don't really take phase on assassin." (23:18)
  • "When a comet hits an enemy champion, the next comet's damage increases. So it kind of stacks similar uh dark harvest. However, this only does three for every time it hits." (49:25)
  • "So, if you can do an ability and then a quick attack and uh, you will do some decent damage to them, especially in the early game. Tyrant is kind of like Dark Harvest, but without with way less damage and no stacking effect, right? Hubris, this is an interesting rune that's actually an item in League of Legends." (01:09:14)

Champions where creators recommend this rune (3)

KatarinaKatarina×2Miss_FortuneMiss_Fortune×2ViegoViego×1