Poachers could be viable on Kindred early game with their stacking mechanic?

Naomi CoffeeGoat·Oct 7, 2015·1 votes·972 views

It's a far stretch to say it is versus the other smites, but now they have an incentive to be in the enemy jungle when wolf targets monsters in the enemy jungle for them to stack. This could be a pretty nice tool for them to have to get away quickly and the fact that wolf only targets the enemy's monsters. But as stated, wolf can only hunt monsters until 6 stacks. Making this tool lose its value by the time you reach that many.

10 Comments

MimyOct 7, 20151 votes

The only problem is that.. EVERYONE knows which champ is marks by wolf. Including the enemy team. So getting these camps are going to be hard unless you have people escorting you because you better believe if the other team knows which ones are marked, they won't let you have it without a fight.

Don't go out of your way to put yourself in danger for these camps.

i nut in ur buttOct 7, 20151 votes

The details of Mark of the Kindred are vague, but I THINK the mark is only visible globally when it's on an enemy champion, not the enemy camps

Spaceman5pffOct 7, 20153 votes

Watch the spotlight. It is clearly stated that Hunted camps appear as such on enemy minimap as well.

i nut in ur buttOct 7, 20151 votes

Ah ok, thanks for the clarification!

MimyOct 7, 20151 votes

Kinda why I wanna try her as an ADC.. she may not have best range and stuff but I'll have fun with her.. Ill just keep marking the enemy ADC and support.. xD

If I can pick up a camp before 6 stacks.. that's bonus.

I'm in bonze so there's a chance I may get it to work out for me.. but higher elos.. probably not..

PoskeOct 7, 20151 votes

Or you could just take the purple one? Since without purple one you ll have trouble sustaining in jungle

Honestly if not even NUNU uses poacher knife (Well in some rare cases where they counter they do) then kindred wont either

Naomi CoffeeGoatOct 7, 20151 votes

The problem with that is Nunu having no real use for poachers. He clears it relatively quickly enough to get in and out as well as his snowball preventing the other jungler from really responding to his presence. One of Kindred's passives allows her to auto anything and grant her some hp back after just walking around, so I'm not sure how much trouble she would have sustaining. And she would benefit from the movespeed boost if the enemy jungle responds to her. She also has much more incentive to take an enemy camp since she gains extra damage and doesn't have much in the way of peeling off an enemy that jumps on her.

CatastropOct 7, 20151 votes

They'd probably benefit more with Skirmisher's. The heal on smite would be very useful for sustain when clearing camps.

Naomi CoffeeGoatOct 7, 20151 votes

I'll only note Kindred has its own heal that they can use after walking around just enough to auto anything to get hp back. Whether that's enough I don't really know.

CatastropOct 7, 20151 votes

It could be if you can kite effectively but otherwise, I'm guessing Skirmisher's would be preferred. Really it all depends on the player's ability to kite the camps.