Feedback is welcome, of course! Kindred deserves attention for the problems their mini-rework has brought and failed to fix.
(No, it's not just salty Kindred mains. Pro players have been vocal about this as well.)
IWillDominate's thoughts (3 months old but still relevant): https://youtu.be/KFvxWS39ppU?t=299
KT Rolster's jungler "Score": https://slingshotesports.com/2017/06/16/score-kindred-rework-failed/
Totally agreed. Im just not so sure about Q true damage as it could make them a bit overloaded.
Overall, the change they currently need the most is I think making them able to sustain themselves during early skirmishes (W heal and a base armor buff). They removed it when Kindred were still OP and had much higher snowball potential due to their % current hp damage. Since it's no longer the case, it's much safer to bring that mechanic back to the game.
Sad fact is that Kindred are currently good only for smurfing to around plat 3 because all good junglers just know how to play around them and prevent them from scaling.
Riot, pls fix this champion!
I'd be happy if they just gave Kindred their top tier jungle clear speed back
The idea of a lategame focused jungler is on it's own pretty bad at the current state of the game. Jungle as a position has it's most impact early in the game, if your early is to weak compared to your opponents jungler, the game will snowball out of controll befor your scaleing ever gets the chance to kick in. However, kindrets stacking mechanic makes things even worse. It means she only gets acces to her scaleing if she has some decent power early because without early power, she will have issues to claiming those stacks. This means she either is strong enough early to reliably get stacks, which makes her a strong earlygame champ with high lategame scaleing and that's why she was perma pick/ban wehn she was strong, or you have a weak early, fail to get stacks and therefor also lack power later in the game. It's just an all or nothing design, if kindret wins the early she also wins the late, and if she looses the early she also sucks in the late.
