Honor of Kings: Flowborn Ganking and Positioning Guide

To succeed as Flowborn in Honor of Kings, transition quickly from your initial jungle clear to an aggressive flanker playstyle. Focus on picking off isolated enemy backline carries—specifically marksmen and mages—by waiting out defensive cooldowns before diving into fights with shadow dashes.

Engagement Windows and Target Selection

Flowborn functions best when attacking squishy targets from unconventional flank angles rather than diving directly through the enemy frontline. Before committing to a gank, check the map for specific opening signals:

• Cooldown Exhaustion: Initiate only after your target has cast their primary blink, dash, or crowd-control skill to clear a wave or engage an ally.
• Frontline Separation: Attack when the enemy tank or support moves too far away to peel or protect their backline.
• Vision Gaps: Clear nearby jungle bushes to remove enemy vision before ambushing from behind lane boundaries.

Skill Combo Execution

Flowborn's burst damage depends on weaving basic attacks between skill casts to trigger passive damage markers. Button-mashing abilities reduces overall damage output and leaves you vulnerable to counter-attacks.

1. Approach via Flank: Use natural movement or jungle bushes to close distance without spending all your mobility cooldowns immediately.
2. Initiate Skill Rotation: Cast your primary mobility skill to gap-close onto the target.
3. Weave Auto-Attacks: Insert a basic attack between each ability cast to trigger passive markers and maximize single-target burst.
4. Execute Shadow Exit: Retain at least one shadow dash to escape over walls or back toward your team if enemy reinforcement arrives.

Avoid trading high-health tanks or committing to prolonged front-to-back team fights. If an engagement offers no clean exit route under an enemy tower, abort the dive to prevent trading your life for an unsafe kill.

Converting Ganks to Objectives

Do not return directly to full-clearing your jungle after a successful gank. Use the temporary numerical advantage to push map pressure:

1. Clear the Lane Wave: Help your laner push minions into the enemy tower to deny gold and experience.
2. Take Neutral Objectives: Rotate immediately to take the Tyrant or Overlord while the enemy team lacks their primary damage dealer.
3. Establish Jungle Vision: Clear enemy jungle camps or place vision in nearby bushes to set up the next rotational trap.