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Kindred and Bard

V Khat·10/6/2015, 6:26:45 PM·4 votes·2,003 views

Heyo, I was thinking this yesterday. In early this season I tried to go solo bot with Zed, Yorick and Irelia while having two junglers. Which it was fun and lead to upset the enemy jungler for that and ganks in botlane were easy, picking those champions were mostly for surviving and easily farm. I'm a main support but trying to become an all-round player.

So I'm a Bard main, and while he is amazing he lacks of something, chimes. He needs those to get strong and being stuck in botlane while having chimes in toplane on the enemy side is a pain.

But when I saw Kindred, I decided I wanted to play that champ a lot, but seeing they only have one CC and a base move speed of 325. It made me think, she can't really escape champions such Lee, WW, Skarner, Vi, and a thousand others. I thought probably double jungling would be the solution but might lose XP, who can actually benefit from double jungling and also increase their kit?

I came up with Bard. His chimes grant him both XP and Mana. He has a nice escape for counter jungling, two slows or a slow and a stun. He can heal Kindred and kept them in the jungle farming a longer more and aid them to obtain those marks. Ganking with both of them actually benefit and Make Kindred's kit stronger.

Since Bard's AA can slow, landing Kindred's slow will be easy, and it can help Bard to land his own stun. Now, the synergy with their ults. If both ult. Bard can ult the enemy team when low on health, then they won't get the heal buff while his team will do. Not to mention a stun will be easy to land after that or a slow. Or for controlling Dragon or Baron as well, easy steals.

For this to work, Bard needs to take smite as well and he should smite both Raptors and Wolves to activate those buffs and help Kindred so Kindred can also save their smite for the buffs such blue, red Gromp and Krugs, also he can clear camps as well to no be left behind, but not often cause chimes can make up for it. Having someone in botlane like Zed, Irelia who can easily farm under the turret and have a follow up for their ganks would benefit greatly and Bard can obtain all of his chimes.

Now, Bard must get SS and ward all the lanes and help them prevent ganks from the enemy team, probably ward the river. And he should be tanky, dunno about anyone else, but I find Bard to be a good tank, he's good at anti-kiting and can kite pretty well. Get SS, get

So what do you guys think of this?

21 Comments

Daddy Found You10/6/2015, 6:29:58 PM2 votes

a dream, unreachable in soloQ :(

Treeofwar10/6/2015, 6:33:58 PM2 votes

this could work interesting indeed

Treeofwar10/6/2015, 6:45:52 PM1 votes

riot says that kindred is a jg but i feel as if kindred is a top laner or adc like quin

Rito Staff10/6/2015, 6:52:17 PM1 votes

I prefer Bard going ap (jungler or whatever), His autos deal so much damage with ap + chimes.

As to the double jungle, yes, even better if you manage to shut down the enemy jungler somehow. The guy alone bot however gotta hold on to his life c::

The Yetii Rider10/6/2015, 6:58:10 PM1 votes

I see your name change came a little early. Sorry Kindred's been delayed.

Inphernal10/6/2015, 7:07:35 PM1 votes

Even though OP 's idea is good, too bad this will never happen. Don't worry about anything other than the standard enforced meta. Dont try to be clever or innovative, you know what, just stop trying to have fun entirely and get back to screaming at feeders.

Kitten of Evil10/6/2015, 8:52:34 PM1 votes

Team Miyazaki!

TurquoiseYoshi10/6/2015, 9:44:51 PM1 votes

I have been thinking about an idea like this (double-jungle) for a while. My idea was that a marksman would go top, a standard mid would be mid, a tank with long-ranged waveclear (something like Mao'Kai or Gnar) would go bot, and the double jungle would be a heavy damage champion and a heavy utility champion. I think Vayne/Kindred/Bard/Ahri or something/Gnar comp would work well.

The Swede10/7/2015, 3:10:59 AM1 votes

Add me. I main support and I am learning Bard and I would really like to test this out. Do you have Skype?

Naomi CoffeeGoat10/7/2015, 4:59:24 AM1 votes

I feel like a problem is there being a lack of gold to share. One jungler just scrapes at the gold laners get. Having double jungle would only make the other suffer to get items if the ganks don't work out.