Is it possible to just revert the Kindred rework?
Riot admitted a while back what they did to kogmaw was wrong and incorrect, so they basically brought it back to how he use to be, and honestly I feel what Riot has done to Kindred was the wrong thing to do. It changed her identity from a shred jungle marksman to a late game stack reliant crit adc. While shred is a far harder theme to balance, it is however a lot more unique. Another thing I feel myself and many other kindred lovers hate about the new kindred is how far more stack reliant she is.
That being said Kindreds win rate is a modest 49 percent atm but if you look at her popularity it has completely dropped to none existence. This tells me that despite kindred being a "okay" champion no one actually enjoys playing her except for the absolute die hard fans, and even the die hard fans all grouped together can must a 49 percent win rate. In Diamond it also only gets worse dropping to a 48 percent.
Some basic reasons why kindred no longer feels fun for me.
-As she has become even more stack reliant, her mark passive which was always annoying has become even more annoying. It throws you off your game plan, and when you take the risk for it, your often given a 2-3 man death bush for it. Let me say this now, a good jungler already has a plan on what they want to do starting level 1. "okay i'm going to start bot, get blue buff, get rapters, go for red, than gank top, and than ward the enemies top side jungle and back". So when a kindred mark appears on the opposite side of the map when you already had your plan in motion, is horribly annoying. Frankly the whole wolf marks needs to change, it's to RNG based and it's annoying.
-Nothing unique about her build path anymore, and is forced to build as a typical Crit adc, which is very expensive.
-E no longers feels as good as it use to
-Q is still nerfed to hell, and we are still super squishy. So a while back riot nerfed our armor and magic resist, saying we did to much damage while having a solid ultimate. Basically we shoulden't be so tanky if we did so much damage with so much safety. Which was completely fair, but eventually we lost our offensive ability to. So at this point the nerfs no longer make sense. Either give us back our armor and magic resist so we can survive dueling, or give us back our damage and cooldowns on q with W. For having both nerfed makes no sense anymore.
Frankly I Just want the rework reverted it feels awful and really sucked the fun out of kindred. It was the champion I used to climb to Gold last season, and honestly i'm at the point where i'm just done with Kindred unless something is done.
both got changes which were poorly thought out and impossible to manage, but rather than reverting to the pre-rework design, they instead meet in the middle. Often hurting the champion's design overall.