Kindred Support

Naughty Hooker··2 votes·3,623 views

Hello everyone, I started playing League starting season four and would always fill. Naturally, I became a support main because that's the only role that was left.

Now, I bring to you a brilliant idea. Kindred support. Before you call me crazy, let me tell you the reasoning behind it. This isn't meant for high elo though, this is just a theory for some fun in norms with friends.

Season 7 is all about assassins and tanks, leaving the ADC's in the dust (my fellow support mains, you know what I'm talking about: when your ADC dies, you lose a part of yourself each time ). What other way to save your ADC than to keep them invulnerable?

Kindred's ult leaves everyone inside at a minimum of 10% hp. I have no doubt that any ADC who is able to keep their farm up and build correctly, should be able to damage enemies to that extent when they're standing still. Now laning phase, shouldn't be too bad. You have many supports like Brand and Vel'koz that simply do damage and have some CC. As Kindred, you only have a slow, but you should do comparable damage with the right runes/masteries. You'll start Ancient Coin for gold income and just play it safely until lvl 6. Make sure you grab Windspeaker's Blessing and build Locket and Redemption.

If your team has someone that can displace and knock people out of the Kindred ult, even better!

The main idea behind this build: Kindreditem 3190item 3107

  • Kindred ult leaves people at a minimum of 10%
  • Locket gives a big shield for your entire team
  • Redemption does 10% true damage to enemies and heals your team for a crazy amount

Like I said, this theory isn't meant for high elo, but just to have fun with. This means that, if timed correctly, every teammate within your ult should come out relatively healthy with a big shield, and enemies come out the ult with about 250 hp (10% of hp + 250 kindred ult heal - 10% redemption).

My name is Aeselli, and I'll see you on the Rift. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

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12 Comments

LordofEntropy2 votes

Well, playing with friends I suppose you can try anything you want, especially if you realize it's just for fun. As far as any practicality outside of just having fun with friends, Kindred support seems pretty silly. One can make a case for any champion in any role. Just as I can make a case for using a screwdriver as a hammer, sure it might "work" but a hammer sure works better, and the screwdriver is much better as a screwdriver.

Naughty Hooker1 votes

Good point. The meta exists for a reason. Traditional supports will usually always work better when played at their max potential. However, from that "traditional support" meta emerged the "kill" supports. Supports like Brand, Zyra, Vel'koz began to make their way into the meta. And recently, in season 6, even Elise support was used in higher elo for a time (korean servers, I believe, never really saw it on NA). Why it works is that early game junglers don't need items to do damage, therefore if played well can snowball botlane pretty easily. Why I said it wouldn't work in higher elo is because they'd understand that and play more passively. I've only played one game so far, but in theory, I'd still like to believe it's a pretty good idea, however biased I might be lol. I have to play a few more games to really test the viability though. But I do agree with you, traditional supports will work better.

Final Spark Lux2 votes

You're crazy! Ok I'm done now. I just wanted to call you crazy because you suggested I not do it before reading, which I did read it. I don't have anyone to try it with. Sorry :(

LordofEntropy2 votes

The difference with the AP mages like Brand, Annie, and Zyra working in support, is that even with lack of gold and solo experience, they do decent damage in addition to various forms of CC. Kindred being AD is being hamstrung by lack of items and the levels especially as AD is expensive and you wouldn't be getting benefit of the jungle items. So you end up with an AD that doesn't do much damage, while being squishy, provides no utility, has an ultimate that can also help the enemy, and the hunt passive could be hard to make use of depending on how things go.

That being said, as I mentioned before, have fun and certainly play it with your friends. That's what it is all about in the end. Just be ready to likely be called a troll if you take it into ranked with strangers :)

bad arcade kitty1 votes

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The difference with the AP mages like Brand, Annie, and Zyra working in support, is that even with lack of gold and solo experience, they do decent damage in addition to various forms of CC. Kindred being AD is being hamstrung by lack of items and the levels especially as AD is expensive and you wouldn't be getting benefit of the jungle items. So you end up with an AD that doesn't do much damage, while being squishy, provides no utility, has an ultimate that can also help the enemy, and the hunt passive could be hard to make use of depending on how things go.

That being said, as I mentioned before, have fun and certainly play it with your friends. That's what it is all about in the end. Just be ready to likely be called a troll if you take it into ranked with strangers :)

well you can get a bc on her for armor shredding, that's utility, also she has a bit of cc. i would get sightstone, runaan, bc, possibly redemption. anyway junghle kindred is rather built as a half bruiser except for runaan with mallet after bc and stuff... she gets stacks in teamfights rather reliably since she has a lot of aoe and all you need it's an assist

she is a bad laner though

zil is just much better, even kayle is beter

also why not to pick her as a jungler and then you can save whoever you want including your adc

Naughty Hooker1 votes

While I do agree that Zilean and Kayle function much better as a support, they aren't as effective at keeping your ENTIRE TEAM alive. Kindred ult does just that.

I don't think she'd work that well in the jungle because this really just isn't her meta. Her clear times now are subpar at best, and your lanes will suffer in ganks because of it.

Naughty Hooker1 votes

Oh, yeah, this is definitely not for ranked lol, I'll stick to the traditional supports for that. I don't think you understand what I'm getting at here though, allow me to elaborate. Kindred support is extremely early game. Kindred jungle lvl 1-6 likely wouldn't have much items other than a machete or a jungle item/boots. Making her damage lvl 1-6 the same as it would be if she was support. And the thing is you wouldn't build AD. Rush a Locket/Redemption. Your ADC is your main source of damage, and Kindred is just there to ensure he/she stays alive. Transitioning into late-game you could always grab a Frozen Mallet or some other tanky AD items to help your scaling since you don't have many marks.

But yeah, regarding the marks, they would be rather difficult to obtain. From the game that I did try to so far though, marking the enemy bot lane is quite effective and I've only seen the mark spawn on scuttle and just in general, the camps on the lower side of the map. I haven't seen it spawn on the upper half yet.

DarianEX1 votes

tempted on item 3107 in the jg on kindred x)

Naughty Hooker1 votes

Go ahead and try it! Kindred jungle is a bit underwhelming this season though, so careful lol.

bad arcade kitty1 votes

get zilean support if you want a "lol, can't kill that" ult it also doesn't save enemies

unlike kindred zilean is also an amazing poker, has a stun and can hasten and even level up his teammates, has a good winrate as a support too

alternatively you can play kayle support, less viable but better than kindred support anyway

finally, you can consider playing bard

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