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Why Kindred is good on paper but bad upon release

Proxyminers·9/17/2015, 9:49:04 PM·1 votes·1,426 views

The champion has not even been released, however if it does come out, there will be major complications upon balancing. We could very well be witnessing the birth of another XinZhao release.

Lets first start off by taking credit where credit is do. The champions that Kindred is taking abilities to build (his/her/its) kit: Passive: advance version of Quinn with the bonus of vision regardless of in or out of bushes. Dance of Arrows (Q): Vayne like dash ability with a built in Hurricane effect which synergies well with (W). Wolf's Frenzy (W): **Passive **is basically Dead Mans Plate but heals so costs nothing to do. Activate Reduces Q CD and creates a companion which you cannot target, that hits you outside of minion aggro range. Mounting Dread (E): Range click ability which increases Attack Speed (AS) and deals % damage (looks to be on 3rd hit) so thank you Vi Lamb's Respite: Tryndamere would be pissed to know that his ult is being used on anyone now. Oh and it heals you at the end, kind of a secondary effect so thank you...Ekko .

So now that we know who these abilities work like, lets see why this is a huge mistake. By the look, Riot is trying to build a Range Jungler. I'm cool with that. Issue is there is no hard CC and the champion is more of a carry style so Kill Stealing (KS) will be required so they go out of control. How it will be played. Top lane Stupidly overpowered bully. Gnar will finally have a range person to fight off for taking the top spot of Top lane bully. What will this champion build? Unknown as of now. Based on the ratios and overall damage of the abilities, either a AS AP champion like Teemo usually builds. AS AD like a damn ADC. Bruiser/Tank which will build a frozen mallet as a core item because it would synergize well with the Q+W Combo, like wise a BotRK will be bought to help sustain. I would guess a Warmogs to tag along and some tanky items like Omen and BV along with Tenacity Boots to top the cake off. Will you hurt this person? Not really, they have range and a built in dash.

So basically this person will be a lane bully that will then turn into a team bully. This champion basically says, no to assassins. Zed players will hate this person because now the ADC wont die upon lv 6 focus, just drop the ult and lol as they walk away with a good amount of life.

However, this is all speculating too. Maybe this champion will be balanced, but from what the sneak peak informs us, I smell OP auto ban until nerfed to Irelia level in season 2.

4 Comments

dannykun9/17/2015, 10:22:13 PM1 votes

All this hate, it's nice that we finally have an Ranged carry that ACTUALLY countpicks assassins. someone picked fizz or zed? now you can finally say, "hey this is the perfect way to stop them from snowballing completely out of control". Assassin's are a broken mechanic in the game and anyone who doesn't exclusively main them knows that having near instant burst with little counterplay and high scaling is Annie in a nutshell, so far the only counter we had to them is high burst with CC mages. So basically annie/malz/syndra. Now we have a different form of counterplay that focuses on keeping everyone alive rather than outright killing the assassin once they've dived.

Proxyminers9/18/2015, 2:27:03 AM1 votes

-7 to a post that doesn't say much other than an opinion that this guy will be broken?

Have you people not noticed how more and more champions are coming out with % damage and usually those champions are the most QQ about on the forums? The reason is because that is not balanced. BotRK is not balanced. % health damage needs to have caps. I mean they have it against monsters, but that is because monsters take almost full damage up front. But why don't they have caps for % damage on champions?

Now the key for this talking point regarding % health damage will be what is the damage? There are 3 types that they will go:

  1. Magic
  2. Physical
  3. True

This is the the real unknown regarding this champion. Most likely the damage will be Magic. But what if it is another True Damage ability? People every season complain about Vayne. Yi's rework had complaints about True Damage. Why doesn't Riot get that True Damage should only be on a Summoner Spell called Ignite and stop putting it in kits? It isn't balanced. The concern is that we have a couple champions with True Damage in their kits now and there is no reason why they cant place it in this champions kit.