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Can Kindred get some love

KnightLakega·12/17/2019, 5:13:53 PM·4 votes·4,474 views

Kindreds a cool little champ, but her ultimate is just.. weird, and really has no place ever...

An ultimate should be something that is just that.. an ultimate.. It's in the name itself.. A special powerful tool to turn the fight in your favor and or your allies depending on what your champs role is.

Kindreds is... messy...

It heals and stops everyone from dieing... EVERYONE... why? What other ultimate effects and helps the enemy as much as it does the allied players?

This isn't to say you can't use it effectively, but because of how it works, its window of opportunity, and window of effectiveness is greatly diminished, to the point it's only in niche cases where the ultimate actually becomes helpful.

(To be honest, the ONLY time her ultimate is 100% useful is simply pushing towers, so the tank can tank the tower, and you cast the ultimate so they dont die and can keep face tanking it for a free tower, or if I'm trying to split push I can use it to push over a tower).

Feel like her ult should really have something more to do with wolf rather than an ability that feels like it was just thrown in there and has no synergy with the rest of her kit.

That and her marks.. THe mark mechanic in and of itself is fine. I'm fine with a snowbally mechanic having ways for the enemy to at least try to counter you.

What I don't like however, is how random it is... Is it going to spawn on the top or bottom scuttle? who knows! 50/50 chance, aww to bad it spawned on the other side of the map, now you're in a bum rush with the enemy jungler and lets hope he isn't already down there, and there goes your jungle rotation..

DId you just ignore it and forfeit that one? Probably a good call, until the second one spawns again on the opposite side of the map of you in the enemy jungle where the jungler is.. too bad squirt...

Especially with the new changes to jungling, you NEED to be able to pick up these marks, and since EVERYONE can see them, laners who see the mark nearby will go kill it and you have no hope of contesting it because you're now 2 levels behind on average, and they can 1v1 you in most cases.

That being said.. why are marks now spawning on the enemy jungle right away? usually it wasn't until about stack 5 they started doing it, now I'm getting enemy gromp marks at stack 2-3, which I can't contest, because if I try and the enemy laner decides to pick up that free jungle kill I'm in a 1v2 that I can't hope to win because I'm down 2 levels from the laner...

7 Comments

Jiali12/17/2019, 6:31:39 PM4 votes

Her marks are the only finicky thing about her gameplay, I think her ult is perfect and she's just a niche champion which is fine, this game lacks niches. Giving kindred the ability to come online easier has always been OP, they want it to be harder. Marksman jungles are a special type of cancer and is why they need to take a bit to ramp up. The graves/kindred era was so dumb and yet with current conquerer we have seen a resurgence of these champs so I think they're actually fine. This post would've been better a month ago before seeing their play/winrates climb. You can play kindred to like any Elo and not have any problem if you're good enough at the game so just get it bud. Also, her ult again is fine. Niche ult, denies malphite and rengar and shit from one shotting you and your ADC lol.

Economic Migrant12/17/2019, 7:14:57 PM2 votes

I'd like her to be a top or mid laner that can jungle if she wants.

ACatIsFineToo12/17/2019, 11:37:48 PM1 votes

Kindred's Ultimate gets better the better you are. When you can really get your positioning down so that it only affects your team. It also is a big obstacle for the enemy team. A lot of the enemy champions may want to jump in and assassinate your carry or mage, but you simply being there prevents them from doing that. Timing also comes into play. Once you get 2-3 items, you can time your abilitys to land just as the ultimate ends, instantly killing an enemy champion.

I like her marks, but I find they don't stack up fast enough. Kindred does need a little love at the moment, I agree with that at least.

Éñcore12/18/2019, 3:24:22 AM1 votes

Kindred is not popular enough for Riot to think about reworking or getting new skins. The champ has had 2 skins since release meanwhile Lux and Ezreal continue getting skins.

Sylaelque12/18/2019, 4:34:17 AM1 votes

Kindred very high skill champion and she's one most scary jungle pick for Diamond+. She might seems weird in first but she's really powerful when you learn how to use her mechanics.