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Here is the reason why Kindred sucks ass right now.

BBag0hxULG·6/23/2017, 9:41:13 AM·6 votes·3,471 views

Unless she has 12+ stacks, she's literally useless. Taken into the fact that she was heavily reliant on stacks before, giving her basically a free BORK in her kit, she's REALLY reliant on them now, to the point where she's damn near unplayable until 25-30 minutes into the game after you build you 3rd or 4th item, which is about the time you get your 12 stacks, if you're lucky anyways. She such a situational pick, the only thing she can play against, is a tank jungle with shit clear speed. I luckily played against a Garen jungle, and I did "ok", taken the previous games, I go 5/11 because I can't do damage. She's too damn squishy with no reliable damage, she sucks dick until she stacks up, which I BELIEVE was RIOT's goal with the champion itself, but it's just too damn punishing until you get to late, which in the current state the game is in right now, by the time it does reach 25-30 minutes, the game's basically over anyway. Don't get me wrong, Kindred was shit before, but holy fuck this is just a headache to play now. I'm pretty sure Urgot jungle would be a better pick, at least he has reliable poke without having to wait 30 minutes for his kit to start finally rolling.

Just revert the changes to Kindred and give her a SLIGHT buff. I personally don't know what to buff on the champion, for I don't really bother thinking about that type of stuff. I'm not educated enough on the matter on tweaking a Champions numbers. She's just unplayable right now, simple as that. If she makes the littlest mistake in ANY way, she's fucked.

Edit: I think the reason why she sucks so bad early, is the fact that her only real damaging ability, is her E. Yes, I'm aware her W does % of current health and her Q, which is hardly any. It just does no fucking damage early, and requires you to attack 3 times. It also requires you to build crit and wont be doing hardly anything until your third crit item, for the crit ratio on it is .5, so if you have 50% crit, it'll do 25% more damage (basically).

3 Comments

chipndip18/12/2017, 8:16:18 AM3 votes

Reason why Kindred sucks is because Riot doesn't know what the fuck to do with them. They're marksmen...that scale...but can't afford crit items...with low range...that now grows...with a 3 hit passive for killing people...and an ult that saves all enemies and allies in the ult...like what are we doing with this champ?

If Kindred's going to be fixed, change their ult. That ult has ZERO business on someone that's trying to hunt champs down and take lives. What is the point of putting AN ENEMY SAVING CIRCLE ON THE FIELD AS A MARKSMAN?

MurderkubeCleric8/12/2017, 8:12:29 AM2 votes

100% agree. I recently picked up kindred because she looked like an interesting champion, so I cant comment on her pre-nerf state but Jesus Christ on a cracker I have no idea how you're supposed to get anything done on this champion. Her clear is fine with how much kiting you get out of your Q, but you do literally ZERO damage. Also, WHY is her base movement speed so low? And this is coming from a Kled main. 325? That makes no sense.

EnlightenedBane11/16/2017, 12:17:10 AM1 votes

Kindred is a great FxxXing champ . . . in theory. Only 2 problems which will level her out to everyone else.

Her passive is CRAP. Not the stacks, but the passive mark that the whole DAMN enemy team can see is terrible. Example - Enemy: Oh a passive mark on scuttle, i'll place a ward and score a free kill and take her mark away.

I guess this was to prevent her scaling, but then just ward for counter-play. Veigar, Cho'Gath, and Nasus get infinite scaling with less problems than Kindred. They can still function fine and better even a little behind. This is literally so much predictability to know where she is and if you don't wanna duel just steal it before she gets there and the mark still appears on her screen until she walks there and realizes it is gone. This wastes jungling time, xp, and certain death. Either make it so the mark immediately placed somewhere else after taken, get rid of this Mark where the entire enemy team can SEE where it is, or give the damn mark to her when your own team steals your jungle.

CHANGE THAT ULT TO ANYTHING ELSE. Her ult let's everything stay alive. Example: Let's all go in and kill kindred because she squishy and let her waste her useless ult. Then save skills and walk literally right in front of her until ult is off then auto/cc her to death.

I understand it helps with very VERY star aligning situations with stalling, preventing baron, or dragon, etc. Though she gets bursted really fast before use or you could just cc her. Though it can't be placed globally like a Bard ult nor can it placed someway near you. It is literally placed right smack dab in the middle so everyone benefits, unfortunately your team has it for the worse. She literally has it worse than Taric, Kayle, Bard, Trynd, and Zilean's Ult. Hell Zhonya's is even better. If you must keep this forsaken ult, make the ult give everyone ON YOUR TEAM heal/invulnerable and/or make it global/semi-global. Otherwise delete it from the game.

Sorry, use to main Kindred then realized she was way too easy to counter-play without even trying and let lose on my frustration and concern.