The State of Kindred

At the moment Kindred does not feel to be fitting their arc type of this dual spirit of death and their abilities seem lack luster. As a Kindred main I have had plenty of experience playing them and I feel that Kindred is more of lamb than wolf. Their w which is wolfs frenzy is very lack luster and does absolutely nothing except help the Kindred players early clear by a very small amount. After the initial clear this ability is normally thrown aside and only used for one thing: the decreased q cool down. This ability should be much more since it is supposed to be where we see the other side of kindred in combat however their w does abysmal damage in team fights even with a stacked passive wolf wont be able to attack his target in time and will still only do minimal damage. I feel the w needs to be changed to make wolf shine more when we play the champion especially during team fights or ganks.

I really hope kindred will get looked at to some degree. I suggest that Kindred's kit needs to fit their arc type more to make them feel more like a dual spirit of death not a "lamb who kills everything with this wolf following her around". Kindred could be given a mini rework sometime in the future mainly to change the w to make wolf more useful and more present in the kit. Maybe we could see the ability change to something where we see wolf as a pet, similar to tibbers, voidlings and daisy. When the ability is used wolf would follow Lamb as a pet and if kindred attacked something wolf would chase after it and to make sure wolf is balance he would have a health bar similar to voidlings maybe taking 3 or so hits before the ability is deactivated (possibly the health would scale with the abilities level) and on cool down. The New W would see that the q is not on a 2 second cool down any more however the w can now scale with some of Kindred's attack speed and maybe have a higher ad ratio. I definitely think having wolf as a pet would be a cool addition that would fit Kindred's theme much better than the current w and make wolf more present.

If not a rework to w I do hope that the w will see some love and fit Kindred's kit much better. Possibly we will see some number changes maybe new effects which will make them more useful and impactful.

Sincerely, A Kindred Main

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