Great job on Kindred Riot (no sarcasm).

SIayton·Sep 16, 2015·4 votes·511 views

Seriously, they're a fun to play champ with a pretty cool kit, an interesting mini game and a different style for a role that's been relatively the same for most champions that can do it. Their animations look fantastic, their lore is cool, and they have some good interactions with each other.

Really enjoying playing them so far. IMO it feels like a balanced version of Kalista. Lots of mobility in a specific zone but not abusive. Very powerful ult but it has counter play if you understand how it functions.

I think they're in a good spot right now. Only thing I would like to see is maybe have their Q proc the stacks on E. Feels weird that it doesn't. Maybe make Q apply on hit effects since its basically an auto attack reset and Kindred is so big on "on hit" effects.

2 Comments

LafouboySep 16, 20151 votes

Personally, I like the stacking system of her passive. I think it is what the stacking system should have been all along. It gives you 6 easy stacks (to help make sure you don't fall off if you aren't able to stack that well in the early game) and rewards you for doing better and stacking it even further. It is something that complements her power, not is 100% of it.

SIaytonSep 16, 20152 votes

Yeah I agree, I'm glad you stop hunting jungle camps at 8%, otherwise they might be kind of snowbally. But its cool that you get rewarded for "betting" correctly on your targets after 8%, and their scaling can get really crazy later into the game. It feels like they balanced around players ability to do this since Kindred's ratios and base stats aren't amazing, but their damage can still get really high if you get a lot of stacks.

I got up to 20% current health on hit at one point (28% with BoRK lol) and was just wrecking people in team fights. Without stacks they feel pretty weak though, so I think they did a good job on balancing that.