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Kindred season 8 strategy, Press the Attack or Electrocute/Dark Harvest?

RedPannda··2 votes·2,713 views

So thinking of picking up my old main again and am getting some conflicting information from guides. I watched some pretty detailed guides on youtube and one of the videos claimed that a generalized press the attack into shiv/ie was the way to go with kindred. I get it, he has the three hit E and does most of their damage with autos.

But then I watched another very detailed video by a guy that really seemed to know what he was doing that swore by a Predator build if you want to win super early or Dark Harvest if you want to win late game. Both builds encouraging more generalized ad items and even a black cleaver.

Just thought I would get third opinion, personally I don't like the randomness of dark harvest/ predator, if the game doesn't go well for you early they are basically wasted. While you will always get a benefit out of press the attack. But the second video that favored dark harvest felt like it was much more informative so I don't want to completely ignore it.

What are your thoughts on the fluffy sheep of doom? Kindred

4 Comments

redniwediS1 votes

I think it depends on how you play her. Do you build for burst, or prolonged fighting? Considering she's a Jungler that can clear pretty darn fast once she hits her stride I'd say Dark Harvest is superior on her to Electrocute when it comes to burst, but in a longer fight nothing will beat Press the Attack.

Simpumba1 votes

Dark Harvest is only good if you know what you're doing, and your very consistent at getting kills and counter jungling(you get a lot of stacks from kills/assists)

Electrocute is good if you want to have real strong early pressure(or press the attack) and give your laners a majority of the kills.

Laçez1 votes

I would say electrocute is a no go, predator and dark harvest are viable, since one helps with the ganking potential that kindred lacks and the latter helps with a mixture of sustained and burst damage through teamfights and 1v1s. I myself have experimented with fleet footwork and am now trying out lethal tempo to see what suits me best. I would say avoid press the attack as it mainly helps with high health targets and has more of an impact later on in the game, it also requires you to tunnel vision a single opponent, which is more applicable for someone like a diver. It helps in a range of scenarios but I think it is a keystone that requires a decent amount of peel. If I were to make a decision I would say precision as your main tree and domination as your secondary; you get the base attack speed and more useful masteries to work with but yet the best portion of the domination tree without having to sacrifice that attack speed and go for an assasin like playstyle.

SaplingLord1 votes

Personally, I like to build Bloodrazor into IE, followed by RFC then situational. I like Press the Attack or even Fleet Footwork . I like starting with the attack speed and immediately getting the AD to back it up. For me I can't seem to get enough damage out with Warrior. I have yet to try any donation keystones but personally with the way I play I don't think they would be as of much use to me. After reading P3rmaFrost's post I think I might attempt Lethal Tempo, as his logic there is pretty good, though you might loose a little power on early top/mid banks. I'm not that good so ill likely stick with Precision Keystones regardless. As for building after getting Bloodrazor and RFC + Boots it really depends. All AD enemies? Get a GA. All AP/Heavy CC? Mercurial Scimitar. Very rarely I get Black Cleaver, but sometimes its necessary. I was acting like a boosted animal and buying Bloodthirster which I should likely replace with BotRK. Apparently my play style is a little odd

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