20 Mark Kindred is Silly

Now, I want to preface this by saying something:

I am NOT saying that Kindred is op or too strong in any way. In fact, she is a weak jungler at the moment and I would not recommend playing her in ranked. That being said, she is really fun when she pops off.

I just played a game of Kindred as part of my quest to get all champions with primary role Marksman to mastery level 5 (and I missed the damn mark by 200 points). I was against a Kayn, who was really bad. He went blue kayn and overestimated his damage so much even when he was behind. He also started by rushing Skirmisher's Sabre, but bought Statikk Shiv before finishing it into the Warrior enchantment. Meanwhile, I bought double Long Sword first back and rushed my AD item, so I used my range and good kiting mechanics to kill him a couple of times early.

I took a few scuttle marks early, and spent the early game bouncing around mid and top lane, killing their Xerath, Garen, and Kayn repeatedly in the process, marking them for multiple of the kills. I spent a good amount of the early game with all 3 marks on those 3 on cooldown.

Midgame my team won a few teamfights with me and then thought they could fight without me, but quickly learned that they couldn't and instead just stuck with me and we won.

But the part I wanna talk about is just what comes with being a 20 stack Kindred, which I did end the game with 20 stacks, as well as my runes and item build.

Each stack gives the following math:

Q grants an attack speed steroid on use equal to 10% (+5% per mark). At 20 stacks, this is a 110% attack speed steroid.

W deals 1.5% (+1% per stack) of the target's current health every time Wolf hits them.

E deals 8% (+0.5% per stack) of the target's missing health when the 3 hits goes off. This crits for 50% increased damage if they are below 15(+50% of your crit chance) max health.

Kindred's attack range is also increased by 25 for every 4 marks she gets, and the first 4 marks is 75 instead = 175 bonus range, for a total of 675. That's outranging a Caitlyn by 25 units.

Putting it all together, with my item build ( ), the result was that nobody on their team, not even the kinda fed Garen, could kill me in a 1v1. Now, my score that game included a lot of deaths because I would frequently go for marks on an enemy that seemed to be alone, only to have 3 more enemies jump out at me and kill me, but that's my fault.

For runes, I ran Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter. And, judging by the Mobi boots, you can tell that my playstyle was just run around the map really fast killing stuff. Take as many marks as possible as fast as possible was the name of the game. It was a fun one, and a build I would do again. Just, like I said, Kindred is actually in a pretty weak spot right now, so don't play her in ranked. Just because it works for me in normals against silver players who don't stack full armor against a full AD comp doesn't mean that it'll work for you.