You're starting to do that thing again Riot.

You're beginning to over nerf the crap out of people again.

Kindred's winrate + play rate have both plummeted. Her win rate is even lower than a lot of junglers right now. Her play rate isn't the highest. ((Arguably Khazix would have a better winrate than her if 2% of his playerbase switched to someone else.)) Hecarim and Amumu are both better than her in all stages. Volibear straight outclasses her. Nidalee outjungles her. Gragas is better than her in every way, and even hard counters her.

If you keep on tacking more and more nerfs to her, she's eventually going to cease being a champion. She kind of needs that heal tbh. It's frankly one of the few things that are even able to let her gank like the other junglers.

What will happen:

will no longer be just "competition" ((Matches that go either way based on the skill + team comp.))

What will happen is they will not only clear faster than her. Gank faster than her. But they will also have more health than her at all stages of the game. More than enough to frankly walk up and invade the piss out of her like they already actually do. What makes good junglers good is 90% of the time some form of sustain. All S-A tier junglers have it. Even this guy. You take it away from her, she will no longer be a worthwhile jungler.

People seriously don't believe me, but I regularly dumpster Kindreds as it is. I even struggle to play her against a lot of these champs that seemingly go un-noticed but are actually respectively beyond broken. I'm frankly tired of being 1shot by Gragas/Zacs who have nothing but Echo +sunfire cape, and then they run off and 1v3 turret dive your team and get double/triples. At level 6. And then walk away with 3/4ths their life perfectly intact because # tons of damage mitigation.

I already know people will go "Muh LCS. Muh this. Her ult so broken. Blah blah blah." People complaining for the sake of complaining. Simply because it's # . What people don't get, there are a lot of champions out there. Right now. That are flat out better than her right now in every way, just sleeper atm that are skyrocketing in winrates while you're still complaining about a champion that is on the verge of being sent down the path of 20% winrate Yi. This is how it starts, and I'm telling you guys now. You're on a path to creating an all around bad balancing design pattern. It's not balance anymore. It's power rotation, and it's a terrible design. Intentionally undertuning champions to unplayability while intentionally over buffing champions to stupid levels is not how you balance a game. You've been doing this for the last two seasons, and you're going to lose a lot of players. You already are. Losing a lot of players. It's to the point you don't even try to brag or show physical facts anymore.

but I mean keep it up, and see how long your game lasts. As for the people that say I'm wrong about this statement. Once the Kindred nerf inevitably goes through, make sure to look up all those champions winrates after about 2 weeks of the patch and see what happens. They'll all go up, and Kindred's will drop below 50. Mark my words.