To those completely oblivious to the main reason why Kindred was strong back then...

AninLegions777·Feb 12, 2017·3 votes·695 views

Let me tell you. When kindred was released, there was this lovely (/kappa) item called Devourer. When this item was transformed into Sated Devourer, it had the current passive of double on-hits that Rageblade currently has. They got a ton of damage from the passive as it amplified not only the damage from their passive but the damage from Blade of the Ruined Kind AND the on-hit damage from Sated Devourer. They nerfed it to 4 hits for ranged champs instead of 2 and this balanced Kindred but it didn't balance the melee abusers coughs Yi coughs. After they removed it and replaced it with Bloodrazor, it removed Kindred's need for BoTRK and they were in a good spot. Now Riot has hit them with nerf after nerf after nerf for no good reason. So there you have it. The reason why they were "strong" back then.

3 Comments

YagoFeb 12, 20172 votes

The pair was one of the most disgusting and egregiously overpowered champions to ever grace the Rift.

And it had nothing to do with Devourer. 60/90/120/150/180 base damage spell on a 2 second cooldown? That's strong. Then you remember that it can be used to reposition or hop over walls. But wait, there's more! It also resets your auto attack.

And they had rather high base armor. And a heal. And crazy high late game scaling.

AninLegions777Feb 12, 20171 votes

Oh wow 180 base dmg! So much. Meanwhile Syndra has a 230 base dmg ability PERMANENTLY on a 4 sec cooldown that scales with 75% AD and we all know that MR is pure garbage atm. So what are you saying? He Q was basic. Their "high" base armor was not high at all. Heal was meh and just helped them to clear better. High late game scaling if you let them get their marks. Can easily mentioned overpowered champions as of back then. There's plenty of them. Kindred wasn't.

MissingKayoFeb 12, 20171 votes

And that had nothing to do with it until Riot buffed them in all their fucking stupid wisdom to promote them for LCS. They were balanced until that point.

Also saying it was a 2s CD is wrong and misleading.

It was only 2s CD inside the W. Which had a separate, longer cooldown.