Kindred, powerful or powerless

MildKimchi·9/9/2017, 11:26:43 PM·1 votes·930 views

Hi, I used to be a kindred one trick but since the "rework", I think he's gotten very weak. I've always loved kindred, his design, the suspense vibe and how unique his ult is. When I played him, I always felt strong, especially in the early, building attack speed in the early game because I have my on-hit passive. Kindred could snowball by getting kills and go getting marks was always exciting.

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But now, I feel utterly useless in the early game, most champions can beat them up in the early and she can never get marks. Even though her late game is strong, they have attack range, sure, but not all that much, and they'll still die because they usually do pretty bad in early. I know her winrate is over 50, but barely. I feel like she doesn't have an impact on the game until late or the enemy team will just end early before kindred can be strong. Building warrior's feel so weak because you don't have the attack speed, but it's now still stronger than razor.

I know you guys tried to buff kindred in the next patches but she really just feels the same. Anyways, I'd like to know:

  1. What do you think about Kindred right now, is she a "fine" champion currently or is she really just weak and deserve a buff

  2. Do you have any plans, any at all for kindred, that you guys might add in the upcoming patches? (If not, please do consider buffs)

I spent so much time trying to like or make kindred strong again, but I couldn't do it, she's helpless in my opinion so here I am, playing other champions until you change kindred.

Thanks for reading this long message, please make my experience on league better, pretty pretty please, thank you.

10 Comments

AlexTheGrandWolf9/10/2017, 8:09:38 AM2 votes

Kindred top 400k luv 7 here tottaly agree but I have to admit riot did a good job,they focused more on making kindred's playstyle be focusing to get marks for the late game in order too do the damage, I understand you feel very weak and it takes a long time to master her again,but one of the main things changed is that she gets her op power spike late game rather than early game,you have to first get your core items which is your jungle ad item, ifnfinity edge and static shiv,and by that time if you about 10 marks your set to go,another thing I want to discuss is the fact about farming,kindred before the rework relied on getting early snowballed so she can get fed,but her kit wasn't as op early as the other junglers so it was either get lucky to get fed or feed ina nutshell,the new kindred focuses more on spending more time in the jungle farming to get your core items,at 20 minutes you should have roughly 80cs and fabled about 4 times,overall I prefer the new kindred since if you learn to play her correctly she is quite strong.

Ps:please don't call them "him" or "her",call them "they",sorry lmao but I just don't like it when people do that XD.

FatedSaviour9/9/2017, 11:36:41 PM1 votes

its her, it, or they, not him, no one is playing wolf, you control lamb

Zed genius9/9/2017, 11:46:16 PM1 votes

he's

cmon bruh

Xion The XIV9/9/2017, 11:36:24 PM1 votes

I don't know. I have never had a problem playing against a Kindred. Even before the rework she was a straight hit or miss champion. If she is not a head she is worthless and even then her Ult is exactly like Bard ult in which it can help your team and get your team aced. She is like a hybrid ADC jungler that does not have a full form of a Jungle or ADC. I can see your point in she is feeling weaker, but I don't know if she is since every single kindred I have seen are almost always feeding or the rare few that just ace the entire team constantly.

The Leo Cat9/10/2017, 4:25:02 PM1 votes

I miss the old days of kindred. This new one feels better to players who didn't like her insanely aggressive early game play style... and how good you had to be at predicting the enemy jungler, or that your laners are good enough to push the lanes up. and to be fair this was because she is really weak early game. But it completely destroyed her identity as a Reaper. Now she's just a generic ADC that's kinda ok. Compared to other ADCs, there's nothing making her a unique contribution. And sadly Kindred was what got me to love LoL.

Sigh... and now instead of a poeitic duo who are the canonical reapers... we got an edge lord doing it better in game.

Kurotama Hime9/30/2017, 5:05:46 PM1 votes

Also, to add to everything said here. Isn't she more trash than none-meta champs in the jg like twitch and ezreal? I mean, they do better than her AND THEY ARE MEANT TO BE ADCS NOT JGLERS LMFAO

[sg-janna]

waiting for WoW9/10/2017, 12:01:05 AM1 votes

You can tell they rushed the Kindred changes during the vanguard update, so they could open up the jungle to vanguard tanks. The downside is Kindred is now in a very bad state and lacking a clear identity beyond just being a generic crit based ADC that is supposed to jungle with a wolf pet that will tickle lamb's opponents.

Old Kindred felt much more unique and rewarding/fun to play. I don't think it's fair to expect her to build full ADC crit items early on with a jungler's gold income either. Old Kindred could buy a BOTRK and become relevant, now you need at least an IE and a full zeal item plus the warrior enchant and boots.