Riot do you hate Kindred?

AninLegions777··1 votes·393 views

Honest question because from all indications, it looks like you do. Let's look at all these changes:

  1. Nerfed base starting armor to 20 (LUL what were you thinking?)
  2. Removed heal from W (Only sustain they had)
  3. Increased Q CD while W active (as if the actual CD wasn't long enough)
  4. Changed jungle and increased total number of creatures (change is good if you compensate for it)
  5. Initially increased camp spawn time (affected every jungler since proper leash wasn't guaranteed)

And now most recently, further increased camp spawn time and almost never guarantees leash up to half hp of red/blue buff. And they also buff the damage of certain camps. How is this even fair? You nerfed Kindred so hard and then buffed the jungle without compensating for it. This affects other junglers too but I'm a Kindred main so I can only speak for them. First clear is stupidly hard and if they have a lee/Shaco/Elise, you'll most likely be first blood if they are smart enough to counter jungle. You'll never get any marks early-mid game cos enemy will ward and wait for you or just take it cos your damage prior to items/marks is useless. You can't gank cos enemy laner(s) can easily kill you thanks to your freaking useless base armor and low base HP early on and camps spawn time is now higher so even after clearing your jungle, you just sit down waiting for camps to spawn so you can get level 6 and actually be useful in the game. It's annoying how this champ went down so fast. They were so beautifully designed.

Also if you want stats:

  1. Kindred have 1% pick rate (even fiddle has a higher pick rate LUL)
  2. Kindred has a 0.05% ban rate (Galio has a higher ban rate LUUUUUUUUUUL)
  3. Kindred has a winrate of 47.87% (Source: euw.op.gg/champion/statistics)

2 Comments

RlP K0BE1 votes

No, I think it's just because Kindred has a very difficult kit to balance. I think she could benefit greatly from a mini rework like the one Shyvana got a couple of patches ago.

AninLegions7771 votes

Nah. Kindred's kit was fine. The heal everything. You could survive early clears and contest marks which is how it should be. I mean what about Grave's kit? It's nowhere near balanced but still he's left the way he is. Kindred just need their previous W back and Q CD while W is active back to 2 seconds. There you go, balanced.

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