INTRODUCTION TO KESTREL'S SKILLS Top
Adrenaline
Kestrel's Heroic Perk
Whenever Kestrel lands a basic attack, she gains 10% attack speed and reduces the cost of her abilities by 10%. This stacks up to 5 times and and wears off after 4 seconds.
Glimmershot
Kestrel fires an arrow, landing an armor-piercing basic attack on the first target in its path. The arrow then pierces through, dealing crystal damage to the target and other enemies behind it.
Kestrel can keep several arrows in reserve. After 3.3 seconds without using her bow, these arrows are automatically reloaded. Reload time is decreased based on attack speed.
Active Camo
Kestrel instantly vanishes from sight and gains bonus move speed. Additionally, she leaves an invisible phosphor mist at her location, revealing enemies as they walk through it. If Kestrel deals damage to an enemy hero within the mist, the mist will detonate, damaging and stunning all enemies within its area for0.8 seconds.
Kestrel�??s basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Active Camo by 1 second. However, Active Camo cannot be triggered while Kestrel is taking damage from an enemy hero, putting it on a 2.5 second cooldown. The length of time Active Camo is disabled is reduced by bonus weapon power.
One Shot One Kill
After a delay, Kestrel fires a single arrow across the fold, impacting on the first enemy hero, large creature or structure in its path. When this hits an enemy hero, it reveals that hero and grants Kestrel full Adrenaline stacks. This deals 50% damage to non-heroes.
The base damage dealt by this ability is weapon damage. Higher ranks of this ability gain armor piercing.
Gameplay Top
Playing
Kestrel is a bit tricky. don't worry if your allies kept on putting question mark pings on you since you will really need a lot of practice and good allies to support you. Kestrel can't go alone into the jungle or push the turret alone. you're squishy and if you don't react fast you're dead.
Start
Kestrel on the lane and focus on farming and earning up lots of gold. what i like about CP kestrel is that your 2nd skill
Active Camo can become so handy since the duration increases as you build up more
Crystal Power.
WP is great at Kestrel but your 2nd skill can be a bit futile sometimes because it only lasts for like 2/3 seconds so escaping with it is useless.
when fighting enemies like
Taka/
Koshka/
Ringo it is a must to always carry
Scout Trap and some
Flare Gun. don't use up your
Glimmershot too much. time it properly. one wrong move and you're dead.
FARM! FARM! FARM! Top
Buy
Crystal Bit and then 2
Halcyon Potion's. Don't poke enemies too much especially if it's ringo you're faced with. but if they tried poking you then shoot them with your
Glimmershot. After 5 minutes i usually earn 2.5k coins and i would head to the jungle shop to buy
Heavy Prism,
Light Shield then
Sprint Boots.
Farm & Kill! Top
Once you've hit level 5/6 continue earning gold on the lane but be aware of the enemies that would go to your jungle. Place some scout traps so that you can gain vision on the jungle. You can go to the jungle every so often and may be score a few kills. Don't act like a hero and chase the enemy when you're on the lane as heroes such as
Taka or
Glaive might be hiding in the bushes waiting for the right time to attack you.
You're a long ranged sniper and becomes like an assassin with this build! That means you should go in-out of the battle and picking the moment to shoot down a vulnerable target then getting out using your
Active Camo! never act like you have 6 freaking
Metal Jacket with you! And do think of the things that the enemy will do to you once you get engage inside the battle! Think if
Glaive 's going to use his afterburn, or if
Catherine will hit you with her stun.
DONT STICK AROUND TOO LONG especially if you see that your hp is running low! You'll turn into a juicy elf meat instantly! Quickly use
Active Camo and return back to your base.
MID-GAME, BABY! Top
Frostburn is the first thing that i would finish then >
Fountain of Renewal or
Aegis. when facing enemies like
Catherine/
Ardan/
Phinn, The third weapon i'm going to build is
Broken Myth making it easy to pierce through their shield. If i have some extra coins i would buy
Chronograph because
Aftershock would be the next thing i'm going to build. Tho' you can always just build aftershock before fountain of renewal/aegis.
Fight some enemies with your allies to gain some coins and try to destroy the enemy turret, make sure you're always with someone since you're soft.
if you have received some coins when you were facing off some enemies, buy
Travel Boots and finish off building your aftershock and your defensive item. don't forget to buy
Scout Trap and some
Flare Gun for visions.
Late Game! Top
Be wary of your enemies now. Since it's the Late Game, even if your scores are ahead they still have a chance to win(experienced this)and You should already have the one's that is posted above. You now have a very terrifying Kestrel! Although you're still a bit fragile so don't think that you can easily win a 1v1 match with some hero! I experienced fighting off with a low hp ringo and he still managed to kill me. so yea, when using Kestrel
ALWAYS BE WITH YOUR ALLY! and as i have tested, if you completed the Late Game weapons. You can capture the Kraken Alone! When all of your enemies has been killed you can go and unleash the kraken by yourself. Of course, with an ally. it's going to be much more easier.
Crystal Build Top
Build Crystal Damage. This adds up the damage done with your abilities.
Frostburn slows down your enemy making it easy for you to land more arrows on them.
Aftershock this can make enemies drop their knees on your first strike!
Aegis this if your enemy is building CP and WP damage. very useful against Ringo's ultimate
Hellfire Brew
Fountain of Renewal helps you stay alive during team fights. use and time it properly.
Crucible you gain 700 health and for example, you and your allies are very very close to each other and Saw used his deadly cannons or Ringo uses his flying flame you can activate this and you'll be rewarded as your team's hero! haha jokes. but seriously, you'll be a hero! (yay!)
Build
Shatterglass or
Clockwork! choose whether to increase your
Crystal Damage or add up your
flexibilty! Your choiceeee!
I often build
Broken Myth or
shatterglass when the fight is taking too long.(would get rid of boots for this) or when you're facing high hp heroes. you should distance yourself a bit on team fights. The Broken Myth will be very useful! Because The lower health you are, the more damage the Broken Myth will do to your enemies!
(Optional) Pick Between
Eve of Harvest and
Alternating Current.
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