So are we just going to ignore kindred's insane rise to popularity and success?

Tychusfindlay918··3 votes·1,049 views

http://www.op.gg/champion/kindred/statistics/jungle

play rate more than triples and her win rate goes to 53% only a few days into the new patch...

Her kit is toxic, and despite the knowledge of this, riot caved into the kindred main community and buffed her anyways, knowing that when kindred is strong enough to solo contest marks she typically ends up being a hyperscaling alternative to graves.

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Kai Guy1 votes

They are great fun as ADC currently as well

D357R0Y3R1 votes

Meddler said that they're watching over kindred

since next patch will be a hotfix patch kindred will get hit 100%

DapperWolf1 votes

Kindred was in an awfull position prior to the buffs sitting at a 46% winrate after 8.12 after the jungle changes and the adc changes happened. It's no surprise that they thouched Kindred after a winrate like that. Are they overbuffed? Id wait a while longer and see, personally I wouldn't use op gg for winrates though and rather something like these stat sites: https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/diamond/by-champion-name https://lolalytics.com/ranked/kr/platinum/plus/champions/

This isn't the first time we see a resurgance in winrates either, in recent times we saw it in the preseason where it was that people simply didn't know how to play against Kindred due to practically never seing them even though they weren't really changed in any meaningfull manner. It might be the case here as well, a lot of mains returning which inflates the winrates which is consistant with what stats show that those who just start playing Kindred have a sub 50% winrate and it's been a while again that Kindred has seen any propper play due to how weak they have been.

Yes they have seen some pro play, but so they did in the past and it seems to still be kind of the same that they are used primarily as a counterpick to Trundle and heavy dive if Taric is banned.

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