Discussion: Kindred's Identity
Before starting I love
and their concept all over. They are my favorite Champ besides Jhin and Malzahar and I absolutetly love their gameplay, voiceover, and art-style.
However, I feel like Kindred's abilities and gameplay do not match with their identity as Grim Reaper/ Death.
In the current meta Kindred's early game is very strong, and falls off from lvl 9. Though kindred actually do have infinite stacking their damage only feels relevant after reaching a big amount of stacks (8 and more stacks).
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As I love the stacking and hunting, death should feel like something inevitable - and not something that falls off in the late game. They should become even more relevant especially when marking someone. Death is a constant threat and therefore Kindred should be one once they've marked you.
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While Wolf and Lamb both have different roles dealing with the ones that "run from death" and "accept death", they also should deal more damage when both of them happen. Lamb: Basic Attacks deal bonus damage to targets that face you when attacking. Wolf: Deals more damage for every minute the target is not fighting kindred.
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Kindred's passive damage should deal max or missing health damage as current health doesn't feel sufficient on a champion that IS death itself. It just feels like it does more damage to someone that thrives with life, but less to enemies that are close to dying. All men must die eventually #ValarMorghulis, and so Kindred's passive should deal more damage to either every living being (Max HP) or at least to those champions that are closest to death (missing HP)
(I know missing HP would make their ult even more usefull as the passive would deal more damage to low health targets but I think it better fits their identity )
What do you think about Kindred's current Identity? Does their gameplay match with it?
I'd like to hear some reactions from you.
Have a nice day and see you on the Rift :)
