Why do People Play Kindred?

Croanin·4/2/2016, 10:53:49 PM·4 votes·1,024 views

I haven't been following the pro scene much, but I seriously always despise having that chick on my team, I'd seriously rather a Shaco. It seems like all she does is hop around and pepper people with pellets.

And after watching Rush on C9 do damn near nothing on her, I'm just curious. I understand she's a power pick in Korea but why? I mean her ultimate just seems to create a global Aatrox effect where you just die anyway if you were screwed to begin with, but awesome if your actually ahead. Not very reliable if you ask me.

Also I always though you were supposed to go Warrior on her over Devourer since she doesn't scale well anyway and you should try to get an early lead.

11 Comments

Moesnd4/2/2016, 11:06:19 PM3 votes

Shes strong

Devourer into hurricane is stronger than warrior

Raiyza4/2/2016, 11:14:04 PM2 votes

Kindred buys time. That's her main point. Her ult can swing a fight in either teams favor, but it allows time for cooldowns to refresh and repositioning. It's very strong but requires good coordination. Her damage is also very high but you have to avoid getting counter jungled.

Mr Giraffes4/2/2016, 11:11:11 PM1 votes

Recently, people are switching to devour on her, its apparently much stronger with her passive... I recently play a match against a kindred & she got a penta, practically killed me in 4 hits.... She is very strong, and her ult is devastating, it's basically like a leblanc passive, where you have ANOTHER chance of surviving , while having no health, and the enemy are full hp, she can still potentially win.

Drehirth4/2/2016, 10:55:19 PM1 votes

I was wondering the same thing, especially because I thought devourer wasn't considered viable in pro play?

WinBoat4/2/2016, 11:25:38 PM1 votes

Kindred is weak.

I have over 20+ mastered level 5 champions, Kindred being one, and I have had some monster games where i've dominated, even with some quadra kills, but overall, you tend to go more negative in most games than positive with kindred.

Kindred is one of those champions that honest to god needs to be ahead to succeed or else, their damage sucks, their impact is useless outside of the ultimate.

The real weaknesses is Kindred's attack speed being ultra slow, that needs a major buff, and also their mana sustain is terrible until you get hunters potion which solves the issue as it does all other junglers, but the attack speed for Kindred is crazy slow, even with attack speed runes.

Kindred's damage is not that good unless you proc your 3 hit on the E skill, then it does a huge chunk of damage but since you attack so slow, you are putting yourself at risk to get that major damage off. So, riot needs to tune their attack speed up a notch, then I think Kindred will be awesome.

Another weakness is how squishy they are. Sure, there is tons of other squishy junglers, but given the above weaknesses already, this hurts Kindred.

I love the champion, I wished they got some buffs, I'd so play them more as I love the design and look of the default skin, but I just can't stand being useless cause Kindred is very dependent on their team as well where other junglers can just carry so hard.

So I'll happily continue playing Vi, hecarim, and my favorite Ekko, Kha'zix, and Udyr, maybe Eve.

Kal Vas Flam4/2/2016, 11:28:44 PM1 votes

If you're ahead she's strong and if you're behind it's basically a 4v5. Rush looked really bad because C9 kept getting behind and he was useless. In contract when they were ahead his Kindred was devastating. It's a feast of famine style champ. I would have preferred to see his Nunu at least one game, but it's a w/e.

Toothierosprey34/2/2016, 11:31:22 PM1 votes

Kindred is a very strong late game champion with a very influential ult that also excels in early game skirmishes because of her e. Once you get some attack speed and passive stacks on her you're pretty strong and can have a big influence on the game. Her problem is that she has to snowball to be useful late game as she's so squishy and without items or passive stacks.