Some changes and things for Kindred that I'd like to see...
Ever since I heard of
Kindred, she's been my favorite champion since. I love to play Kindred, I lover her lore, her voice lines, everything.
Unfortunately, she's not in the greatest spot, what with her being squishy and her movement speed being super slow.
Granted, she's not supposed be some armored tank or anything, and she's a ranged champ, so slower movement speed makes sense.
But unlike other ranged junglers, or squishy junglers in general, she doesn't have any sustain... at least, not ever since the nerf that took away her heal. I understand that it made her super powerful, but I now without it, almost anyone can come in and destroy you and all you can do is either try and fight, or run... and with her slow movement speed, that's not really going to do much.
Now, to be fair, I'm not the best at the champion, but it feels like it's super hard to do much with Kindred right now, what with the Rengar changes, and the Shyvana changes, and just Kha'zix in general, not to mention Camille just being released, and being played Jungle instead of Top.
I'm not saying you have to do something that'll make as powerful as Rengar, but at least do a little something.
My suggestions are...
Buff her movement speed, because for an entity of death that supposed to "chase it until it dies," she's not really good at that. Do something to not make it so easy to capture her marked jungle camps, I remember Riot talking about this before, and I'm not quite sure what could be done that would make it fair, but I'm sure there's something. And finally, something for sustain. Not meaning bring back the heal on W, but something more reasonable, because the only thing that heals her is her ult... which also heals the enemy.
Also, to end this, I recently found a (probably old) skin idea for Kindred, which is Popstar Kindred. Which I think is an amazing idea.
Now I know she already has two 1350 skins, so this can be put on hold for a good while, but Riot come on...
http://i.imgur.com/q5da2cy.jpg
You gotta admit this looks pretty epic.
So, with that, I leave this to the community. I hope you all agree that this needs to happen, and if you don't, please tell me why? I want this to be worked out together, maybe with some counterarguments and insight that will help. I love this champion, and would be sad to see her fall into a state of non-playabilty.
<>Hiren<>
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and unlike popular belief,
, hell even
are among some viable pick ups for her, some build orders tend to vary, but long as the enemy team does not outright super aggressive deny you stacks from the jungle, its relatively easy to hit what i like to call the min line for kindred % hp eating stacks depending on which phase of the game it is:
, she 'can' becomes a insanely strong late gamer with nothing but being stack starved to ruin her. Her ability to bust towers may be a bit lack luster compared to the 'standard carry' but she can outright shred thru priority targets, pudge(health stacking abuse) tanks and even standard tanks are going to get shredded hard unless they can outright negate her % damage bonus with retarded hyper healing (easily resolved with some simple build changing or just picking up
for 800 gold early on) or retarded armor building (again easily resolved
or
if they are doing both healing and armor stacking).
and
, she isn't 'demanded' to be built tankie but she can easily twist it into her own style because she is one of the champions who love
build'. Plus you have to be smart on how you approach a gank which alot of junglers get to ignore because they can easily just instant dive, wall jump or plain put up some huge root/stun cc with ease to let them give a fk about approaches to secure a kill when they can just dive/cc to secure it instead.