Well, RIP Kindred.

Great Fox·6/29/2016, 4:32:46 PM·3 votes·1,193 views

Nerf after nerf after nerf. I'm honestly surprised Kindred isn't the new "better nerf Irelia" standard.

Now her base armour has been reduced by 5.85 with the only compensation being a 0.25 increase per level? Even at Level 18 she'll still have less physical damage reduction than just about every other champion in the game via base stats.

Now her iconic Heal on Wolf's Frenzy has been removed, and replaced with a measly 50% damage reduction for 2 seconds? Just 2 seconds? How is that justified, at all, for removing Kindred's ability to lane at anywhere at all.

I guess, screw everyone that liked to take her top or ADC, she's now weaker than everyone and incredibly easy to push out of lane thanks to Riot continuing to make her worse and worse.

Let's total it all; Base Damage Nerfed Attack Speed Scaling Nerfed Q Damage Nerfed by 75 points Q Cooldown doubled at every rank except 5. R Only castable underneath Kindred herself E Damage nerfed E Slow nerfed E Cooldown increased %HP Damage on Passive Stacks nerfed Base Armour severely nerfed Healing Removed

Kindred had a 47% win rate before the 6.13 nerfs, and only a 21% ban rate. But sure, let's nerf her more. Next Olaf incoming.

Edit: Riot, you better fix her Champion Page in the client and her Champion Description, since you saw it fit to remove her Heal and yet the page still says she has it.

24 Comments

AlwaysByMySide6/29/2016, 4:46:14 PM5 votes

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Kindred had a 47% win rate before the 6.13 nerfs, and only a 21% ban rate. But sure, let's nerf her more.

http://champion.gg/champion/Kindred/Jungle

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She has a much higher win rate and twice the ban rate you said.

Alutrosity6/29/2016, 4:45:09 PM4 votes

Her armor was on par with that of a melee champion. Her q applied her passive giving it massive AoE damage that could chunk multiple targets, ontop of the fact that she built runaans making it easy to apply if her Q+W was on cooldown. 50% damage reduction is a pretty big fucking deal that no marksman should ever be allowed to have, so factor that into her being able to build lifesteal (death's dance + botrk can be pretty potent sustain and dmg reduction), and her e synergized way too well with her passive which falls off after just a few autoattacks, and she was always better suited for kiting rather than straight fighting, so attack speed scaling nerfs is not only fair, it makes sense to do it.

tl;dr Her kit needed to be toned down ontop of the fact that her defensive scaling reeked of tank. The bitch deserved to be nerfed, especially when you factor in her obnoxiously entitled bratty personality, which just made her that more annoying.

Rest In Pee, Kindred.

iisabrina6/29/2016, 4:35:30 PM3 votes

Well she is a jungler.

DREADN0UGHT6/29/2016, 4:37:17 PM2 votes

Those feels I feel. 115 ranked kindred games this season, and I think today was my last one... RIP my main.

Darkslayer856/29/2016, 4:43:29 PM1 votes

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SaltyKracka6/29/2016, 5:42:06 PM1 votes

Lane Kindred was cancer enabled by the fact that she was overpowered as fuck in the jungle.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.