Maybe it's still too early but I feel like new Kindred is much weaker

ThePikol··1 votes·334 views

Riot wanted Kindred to be weak early and scale into late game where they shine. But I feel like her early is too weak now. I feel like my W and Q do little to no dmg.

And because Kindred is too weak in early it's much harder to go for Marks too, which are supposed to be more essential to them now? I know Riot stated they they wanted Kindred to be less reliant on Marks and more on items, but I feel like withour Marks I do too little dmg.

And it's strange that my only form of CC (slow on E), so also my engage tool is my execution spell as well. Like, am I supposted to use E as I start the gank and use the slow? Or use it when enemy is running away to execute them?

With old Kindred after 4 Marks I could start dueling, now I'm too scared to do this.

I also think that crit items are too expencive for jungle role. It reminds me of one other champion. "Weak early, strong late, supposed to build crit jungler" - Master Yi. And we all know he doesn't build crit after all. And we know the popular opinion that "he's useless to team early". Will Kindred fate be the same?

And it all doesn't come from new Kindred player. I have lvl6, got S every other game, 204 519 mastery points. I would like to hear from Kindred players from higer elo as they may find changed to help Kindred and have different opinion.

5 Comments

Psyrix2 votes

Riot actually wants them to be strongish early, weaker mid and strong late, haha not exactly sure if they got it down yet (havent played them myself as yet) but I'd prbly say you just have to get used to the playstyle abit before we can really say for sure.

NCBuckets1 votes

she feels weak early, useless mid, and hypercarry late.

Kai Guy1 votes

I have had more success using E later, I am running Chilling smite in more games then I used to thou I still love challenging smite, its depending on enemy's comps mobility. I'm doing pretty poorly still but I have had a few glimmers of her kit working well, hitting late game crit build with 12 marks feels dam good for example. W changes I like. Still trying to figure it out myself, thou having all the Scales off bonus ad is throwing me off a bit. her power spikes are hella changed up.

King of Demons1 votes

People haven't figured out a build for her yet. If you still go the old attack speed build that's your problem already

She plays much more like a traditional ADC now in the sense that she has an attack speed steroid and a normal attack range past 4 stacks on top of better AD rations. You definitely want to get more AD than before now.

ThePikol1 votes

I don;t go old build. I build Warrior. Tried with RFC, Static, IE, you know the crit items Riot told us to build now

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