PLEASE remove Scuttle Crabs from Kindred's passive

idrinkpee·11/24/2015, 4:08:31 AM·3 votes·1,020 views

Not only do Scuttle Crabs contradict the idea of Kindred's passive, which is to encourage potentially dangerous and difficult counter-jungling (high-risk, high-reward behavior), because Scuttle Crabs are neutral objectives which are often incredibly easy to secure;

but especially the Scuttle Crabs introduce a huge element of RNG into an otherwise largely skilled-based game. Get 4 Scuttles in your first 5 or 6 targets? Stacks aplenty. Don't see a single Scuttle in your first 6 targets? No stacks.

Stacking hinges almost entirely on how many Scuttles you get, and this is annoying in Solo Queue, but I think more importantly, it is incredibly bad for competitive play. At the pro level, we are supposed to be watching to see which is the better team; but when Kindred is in game, all we see is which team gets lucky and which gets unlucky. The idea that luck of this kind plays a huge role in a pro game is more than boring, it's actually infuriating.

3 Comments

LaoBushido11/24/2015, 4:09:25 AM2 votes

why don't you set up traps or ward for sc?

idrinkpee11/24/2015, 4:20:18 AM1 votes

I'm not much concerned about my own games, I think it's a fine mechanic in Solo Queue. It's that it is really unfair in competitive that annoys me. This is a "simple" answer you give and yet the best teams in the world can't seem to prevent Scuttle after Scuttle from easily going over to Kindred. There is no other skill in the game that introduces such significant and powerful RNG. All other RNGs are minor, and statistically average out: TFs extra gold, for instance. But this is game-breaking. If you think the answer is "completely change your map movement to play around a single champion," the answer is probably "nerf the champion." The fact that one champion on one team can so powerfully alter the entire macro-game is, quite simply, too strong.

jogoblington11/24/2015, 8:59:01 PM1 votes

I love it I always gank them with my Jungler when im mid or top!