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Kindred win rate plummets after "adjustments"

AzureKindred·6/3/2017, 12:44:34 AM·4 votes·970 views

Kindred win rate dropped from 51% to 43% in one day (Source: http://na.op.gg/champion/kindred/statistics/jungle)

My personal win rate with them is dropping too. I've played over 500 games with Kindred in the past few months and stuck with a 55% minimum win rate through thick and thin, I play them against my counters and bad match ups, any time. I practically only play this champion. From that perspective, kindred seems overall weaker, I can't even do well when the rest of my team is winning now. My MMR has dropped and I'm going to get demoted to Gold soon if I keep playing. I was really hoping to climb to diamond with these reworks, but I guess Kindred is still in the gutter. :(

It actually feels like I can't influence the game at all any more, when I used to be able to control it most of the time. It's just random chance, if my team wins, I can win. If they don't, I can't do anything about it.

I've tried different keystones, runes, playstyles, and nothing seems to work. I've always been able to play Kindred in many different ways, and none of them work any more.

Everything in the rework has been really good, on paper, and even thinking about it now, it seems perfect. I don't know whats wrong.

Thoughts?

28 Comments

dolce de leche6/3/2017, 1:32:35 AM7 votes

Zac all over again. These mains of champs getting reworks who have played hundreds of games need to realize that the build, patterns, strategies, and timing will all be different from before. Overall she is better, but her play style changed, and i guess you don't think that way, so you lose, like many others. Those willing to try kindred post rework will be unfarmiliar to a new champ, and will lose games, and old mains will become stuck in their old ways and not adapt, killing their main's win rate until they quit the champ and leave it to a different audience, or come crawling back, finally with a realistic viewpoint.

Escheton6/3/2017, 12:52:08 AM2 votes

All winrates plummet directly after major champ changes. Ya know, learning curve...

VoraciousX6/3/2017, 6:01:52 AM2 votes

I think the issue is just people building them wrong. Bloodrazor and Runaan's are still dominant core builds apparently. Kindred is no longer an on-hit marksman so damage needs to be bought. You can't just buy attack speed and fire pea shooters and expect to dominate. Some attack speed will still need to be built obviously but you'll likely want more damage than attack speed. Q gives a nice attack speed buff(50% attack speed at 8 stacks, 70% at 12 stacks, etc), so you might even be wanting an essence reaver IE combo.

Lugg6/3/2017, 1:25:12 AM2 votes

Of course it's going to drop, people have to adjust to the new playstyle. It will be over 50% a month from now, watch and see.

Chønklord6/3/2017, 3:15:52 AM2 votes

##If Riot reworks a champion in a such a way that suddenly that champion's original playstyle for their community becomes almost completely foreign... then there's a huge problem with how Riot is reworking said champion, and not with the community's way of playing said champion.

LostFr0st6/3/2017, 12:50:27 AM1 votes

A different site here: http://lolalytics.com/champion/Kindred/Jungle/ Idk if the meta junglers right now are just keeping them down.

FF MACHlNE6/3/2017, 12:50:11 AM1 votes

you can get in touch with me through league idk but I have had some success playing the new kindred win/loss it feels better to play

420 grams6/3/2017, 1:17:49 AM1 votes

I always thought Kindred should've been an on hit marksman with wolf doing on hit damage with a small ap ratio, thus making rage blade viable.

But executioners calling and redemption to Insta kill on ult end is still pretty fun

Linna Excel6/3/2017, 3:35:06 AM1 votes

Her playstyle has changed a little in that her passive lost a lot of damage and gained a little safety.