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Hunter's Talisman Should NOT be the Recommended Starting Jungle Item for Kindred

owendawg·3/6/2017, 6:42:33 PM·1 votes·762 views

Kindred, who revolves entirely around her autoattacks (and yes, this includes clearing the jungle), is recommended the Hunter's Talisman as a starting jungle item. While her base mana pool is tiny, her q cooldown (even when reduced) is nowhere near small enough at rank 1 for her to run out of mana, unless the player was just intentionally not autoattacking. Her e, while costly, also isn't something that the player should even have before clearing both buffs, rendering its cost irrelevant before your first back. Frankly, Hunter's Talisman is just an inferior option to Machete on Kindred, and the fact that it is recommended OVER it is ridiculous, and serves to do nothing but mislead newer Kindred players, leaving them with less overall health when they finish clearing the jungle. Please fix the recommendations for Kindred to have a bit more sense, as currently it's just wrong.

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Hethalean3/6/2017, 6:56:00 PM3 votes

There is also the health drain aspect from Kindred's Q with Talisman. She does make a lot of use of her abilities that affect more than just her target.

1 Q drains a total of 75 HP (25 from 3 targets if 3 targets exist) over... 5 seconds? This also heals for 75. Where as the Machete gives like maybe... 6 - 10 HP an Auto attack? I think?

It just depends on if Kindred needs more healing. I don't think she attacks fast enough to have Machete's 10% lifesteal out sustain the 5 HP / second drain even on a single target.

I think Machete is more damage on a single target though, but this season is all about the AoE.