GAMEPLAY Kindred passive bug

EU Bahamut·Oct 14, 2015·5 votes·1,288 views

There seems to be a bug with Kindreds passive. I have had several games with her, and if there is a Kindred on the opposing team, the Hunt marks for killing marked jungle camps has not been stacking as it should. It gets to three and stops there. Kills and assists are still stacking as they should, but the jungle camps don't add on after the third stack. The mark on the minimap also seems to persist for around 7 seconds after the camp has been cleared. It makes her very close to unplayable in the jungle, as her passive stacks for damage aren't adding up.

14 Comments

Lambs FrenzyOct 14, 20152 votes

if im against another kindred i only get my stacks when the mark is red(which i assume is the enemy kindred mark). Other than that i get my stacks fine on champs.

AutumnalRegentOct 14, 20152 votes

This, in fact, seems to be the bug. At some point in a match, the marks for each Kindred will switch colour and you'll have to start tracking the RED jungle marks, rather than the BLUE ones. It's supposed to be the other way around.

It's easy to tell which ones you should go after though, as you will only passively mark the ENEMY jungle or Scuttlecrab.

My case was when both team's Kindred (Myself and the enemy) marked the same scuttlecrab. After killing it, the blue marks were appearing on jungle camps on my side of the map, which confused me at first. Then I clicked on the creep, and noticed the passive mark was from the enemy kindred. Still took the camp to deny but it was a tad frustrating.

ZarvixOct 14, 20152 votes

I am having the same issue. I asked the enemy Kindred if their stacks were applying properly and they said it was. I noticed my first stack counted properly for me, maybe my second one as well. But after that I got very frustrated that I had to venture so far into the enemy jungle to get my stacks when I should have had well beyond 6 at that point from my OWN jungle. It worked perfectly when I did a bot game without an enemy Kindred. So, it is clearly from some coding of the passive between ally and enemy Kindreds.

Thought: When the scuttlecrab is marked by both Kindreds, it seems they swap at this point, but that still doesn't work properly, since your own jungle is the only jungle camps that are supposed to be marked. Riot should just make it so one scuttlecrab cannot have two Kindred marks on it.

TeddyThePsychoOct 14, 20151 votes

"since your own jungle is the only jungle camps that are supposed to be marked."

The thing is, it's the exact opposite, wolf only marks rift scuttle and enemy jungle camps and you can only stack in jungle up to 6 stacks

Taken from kindred's abilities -

Mark of the Kindred (Passive) Lamb can choose a champion to hunt by clicking the champion potraits above the inventory. **Wolf periodically hungers for and hunts enemy jungle monsters. ** Gaining a kill or assist on a hunted target permanently empowers Kindred's attacks against all targets, causing them to deal 1.25% of the target's current health in bonus on-hit physical damage

Current Bonus Damage = X% Wolf will no longer mark jungle monsters after you reach 6 stacks.

ZarvixOct 14, 20151 votes

Yeah, realized that after I posted. However, the first 2 marks or so that I DID get stacks for, were ones marked in my own jungle. So, unless the passive marks the first 2 in your own jungle, then swaps to enemy.... Something with this passive is broken regardless. Also, the monsters I got stacks from were the RED mark on the mini-map. My marked ones are supposed to be blue. Either way, something is wrong with it.

CaythelesOct 14, 20151 votes

Also sometimes it Mixes up the marks

BrandakeranOct 14, 20151 votes

I have the same problem

BrandakeranOct 14, 20151 votes

Upon further play. it seems that i can only get mark stacks on camps marked for the enemy kindred. Well...the red marked ones, which i assume to be the enemy one

ZipeedOct 15, 20151 votes

The marks are colored relevant to the side of the field you are on, blue side or red side (because of recoloring changes made within the past couple of months, it always appears you are on blue side) Bottom left is blue top right is red

Bard R FridayOct 14, 20151 votes

It only marks enemy camps. You can only get stacks from jungle camps if you have less than 6 total. The 7 second delay is intended so you can't tell where the enemy jungler is, and so they can't tell where you are.

EU BahamutOct 14, 20151 votes

That makes sense now. Ok, thanks :) Didn't realise the marks were for enemy camps. Hard to tell with two kindreds on the field. And the Mark not going makes sense too. Thanks either way :) Its just a shame most people don't want to play with a kindred atm

moon1VRAJITORUOct 14, 20151 votes

Today I randomly played Against Kindred, I was playing as Veigar in MID LANE , When I Tried to stun him with me E he passed through it.He didn't even stop. None of my skills were affecting him, even though I had like 500AP. I think this is too OP. I hope you'll fix this.

AMetroidEatsUOct 14, 20151 votes

The color of the wolf hunting mark corresponds with what side of the map your base is. If you are on the blue (bottom) side, your kindrade marks will be blue. The kindrad on the red (top) side's mark will be red.