Riot, there's a problem when jungle ezreal has over 5x the playrate and playerbase of Kindred

waiting for WoW·Sep 19, 2017·8 votes·829 views

Clearly it's not because people don't want to play marksmen junglers but because Riot continues to keep Kindred in an undertuned state. Kindred's recent changes were rushed, and the most immediate thing Riot should do is revert Kindred to pre patch 7.11.

At this point it's clear that Kindred needs a full scale rework altogether, but it's not right to just let them sit in this abysmal state they currently find themselves in for another 6-8 months until that rework might finally be possible to implement.

12 Comments

chipndip1Sep 19, 20175 votes

Kindred's a cool concept with a MASSIVE failure in execution. Their ult is ludicrous for a marksman, their range is shit until they grab marks, they're dependent on these marks in the first place, and the jungle just doesn't have the gold to foot the bill on their build. I don't think they can really make their kit work, and they should stop trying.

AhrisSep 19, 20173 votes

Kindred is performing good, her kit just doesn't appeal to many players. I find her kit extremely boring, her ultimate is very antifun for herself and enemy. Riot needs to change the ultimate.

Kurotama HimeSep 30, 20171 votes

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Kindred is performing good, her kit just doesn't appeal to many players. I find her kit extremely boring, her ultimate is very antifun for herself and enemy. Riot needs to change the ultimate.

The ultimate is fine. What they need to do is revert her rework and restart analyzing what is happening with Kindred and how they can fix her because obviously the rework is a big fail

SkorchSep 19, 20172 votes

Thats because Kindred is still bad. While JG Ez is good, because Ez is bad.

Weird meta isnt it?

MLDzXnRRRSep 19, 20171 votes

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Thats because Kindred is still bad. While JG Ez is good, because Ez is bad.

Weird meta isnt it?

Ez isn't bad. Kindred is not bad too. They are pretty balanced, but this can't be said about the champs that you see every game.

Princess Píxie Sep 19, 20172 votes

I absolutely love Kindred end enjoy playing her but she has really no escape and falls short of ganks, map pressure, and objectives just to stay in game with farm.

AbibyamaSep 19, 20172 votes

Since their visuals are modern. They need a pure full scale Gameplay update with a few new VFX/animations here and there (like the upcoming Aatrox)

FireDrizzleSep 19, 20172 votes

I would like to second complaints about the ultimate. If you are jungling vs Kindred every encounter with her is decided by which team rotates and that is no fun.

DarkeusSep 19, 20172 votes

Yeah, I think Kindred could be so much cooler as a champ and really deserves a good rework. Her "Thematic Fantasy" or whatever could really be expanded on by changing up what she does. I think the marks, while maybe seemed like a good idea at first, are one of the first things that need to be looked at or removed. There has to be a better way to accomplish what it is trying to do with her.

WoonStruckSep 19, 20171 votes

Happened to Azir.

Same problem with Kindred, but with every jungle, marksman, and infinitely scaling champion's issues tacked on as well. In order to be successful, she has to be good early game in order to get her stacks. But if she's good early game, she infinitely scales into a monster. Her ult makes the counterplay relatively low.

KnoyleSep 19, 20171 votes

TBH, the same happened to Urgot Warwick Poppy etc. is STILL happening to champs like Azir Aatrox and I mean wth is Fiddlesticks even? It's honestly less stressful for them to be dumpstered than in some bull shit state. Just wish the process to reworking these champs worked faster, though I cannot complain about the result when they take the time to completely overhaul the champ.

CosmicBGMOct 23, 20171 votes

It's difficult to get ahead by getting stacks because then the enemy know where you are you are dead and now you are feeding. Another thing I don't like is how kindred's E is the only ingage and is also an execute which makes no sense, also give us bad percentage health damage stacks not range stacks because in this meta of tanks this could help change it for the better.