Kindred

TheFallenShaw··3 votes·967 views

Can anyone recommend any builds for her? I'm just not to sure by what I'm seeing right now with the first three items being razor, beserk greaves and then ruinanns.... I mean its a lot of AS but what about Damage? a champion can only attack 2.5times a second anyway I could be wrong and this could be best I just want to make sure. was thinking bork instead of ruinanns still gives some as but also ad and another onhit effect to go with her own and what about witsend?

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Obnoxious Pen3 votes

"You might consider trying ... Iceborn Gauntlets on her.." You may not. I think the good build would be item 1419 item 3085 item 3153 item 3071 The rest depends on the enemy team

Elite4Runner2 votes

She is really all about attack speed.

Her base AD is one of the lowest in the game, and her AD ratios are pretty disappointing.

Her passive is really what makes her viable since it ultimately scales on the target's current HP.

Bloodrazer is good because it also scales on maximum HP so it becomes effective as the enemy champion reaches lower health, while working with her passive by increasing attack speed.

Runaan's is mostly good because of it's passive that applies on-hit effects, including her passive.

Blade of the Ruined King would be good, but probably wasn't on the recommended build because it had recently been buffed.

As I mentioned, her base AD is super low, but still having some AD is definitely helpful since her passive does have a diminishing return, this will help to normalize that, but overall attack speed is still your main focus.

Now, DESPITE her low base AD, she does have some pretty low cooldowns, which means Spellblade passives tend to work quite well on her. You might consider trying Trinity Force or Iceborn Gauntlets on her as they will help provide her with extra damage and utility to stick to her target. For a slight bonus in combination beyond that with added safety, I like to pick up Sterak's Gage.

As for other items, ... despite my understanding of her kit, I'm not an expert when it comes to actually playing her, so I don't really know what others would consider meta at the moment.

My suggestions may honestly be absolute garbage lol.

TheFallenShaw1 votes

thanks, ive always loved tri force, and usually make it part of every build, but Im not so sure with her since she already had low cds thats not really effective the hp and mana help but not much, primary my main consern using it with her is the spell blade. It applys to base ad which on her is low so im worried its not good by that respect.

Elite4Runner1 votes

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thanks, ive always loved tri force, and usually make it part of every build, but Im not so sure with her since she already had low cds thats not really effective the hp and mana help but not much, primary my main consern using it with her is the spell blade. It applys to base ad which on her is low so im worried its not good by that respect.

I would focus more on the utility that TriForce provides.

The Rage passive helps you stick to targets while you are auto attacking them.

The bonus attack speed is of course good.

As you said the health and mana are good as well.

I think the cooldown reduction is very helpful given how powerful her ultimate is.

As for Spellblade, simply being able to proc it often is a huge benefit to me. The fact that she has low base AD doesn't really mean much when you are just looking for free damage. You probably won't be investing much into AD in general, and her AD ratios are crap so any bonus damage is fairly useful. However, this is why I suggested to get Sterak's Gage as well. The bonus base AD will equate to a bonus 25% Base AD damage on normal attacks, and a bonus of 50% Base AD damage on Spellblade with TriForce, which is further increased by another 25%/50% when Sterak's passive is engaged. Plus the bonus health and shield is very effective if you ever get caught invading, .. which she tends to do.

AgeOfTheMage2 votes

bloodrazor, bork, black cleaver, runaans are the main items, i get mobility boots and then yomumus for the lethality. take thunderlords since you can burst them down due to your marks

TheFallenShaw1 votes

Ive been takiing berserker greaves but, always have stayed away from mobility boots bc they are the slowest in combat. What about boots of swiftness instead? I only ask because they seem a safer approach incase i need to run and kite.

AgeOfTheMage1 votes

i get mobility boots for the jg marks and better ganks

Copy Mirror1 votes

Black Cleaver and Frozen Mallet in JG IE in bot lane

B00B001 votes

blood razor runnan's cleaver

those are core.

Yommumu's AS boots/Ludacity BotrK / GA / Maw / Streaks Gage / Redemption - basically your choice, if you need a defence item for its sheer power i would go redemption as you can kite with it, plan heal/escape etc but i would usually go streaks gage.

Kindred Doesn't scale with AD she scales with ARpen, so lethality items are good for her, she shreds through tanks and HP really effectively, do not build her as BT / IE its not worth it, one or the other is fine but not both and runaan's should be bought asap and straight into cleaver, if you need defence get tabi's if you really deem you need it and if your fighting AP jungler and a lot of fighting is going on go straight into Hex drinker to get the upper hand, don't finish maw, finish hurricane but hex drinker is real powerful against your AP's and allows you to be very aggressive.


when you AA just before the animation finishes press Q, you'll get instant two hits on the target and straight into your next AA animation as the Q resets your AA animation so if you do it half way through your not doing as much DPS as you could be.

now imagine this E (wolf) > AA > Q (cancelling the animation) > AA you almost instantly proc your E.

when your about to gank mark your target halfway through the river, it will apply to them just as you turn up to start your gank leaving them little warning time from the mark to react.

Yago1 votes

You should always buy Death's Dance.

You should almost always build Runaan's Hurricane.

After that, you can build pretty much whatever you want. Black Cleaver, Blade of the Ruined King, Frozen Mallet, Infinity Edge, Lord Domink's Regards...Wit's End is situational, but can be quite useful against AP heavy teams.

They're pretty flexible in terms of build.

If it has health, attack damage, critical strike, attack speed, an On-Hit effect, Spellblade, Lethality, armor, or magic resistance, it is serviceable. The only stat you want to avoid is Ability Power, as it grants you nothing. Cooldown reduction is often lackluster, but is by no means wasted.

TheFallenShaw1 votes

I've desided to focus on playing her as my main, bc she is currently considered low teir. I know being a so called low ello player this isnt prob the best thing for me todo, However I really like her, and I feel she might get buffed in time due to her low teir. Besides that she has a high skill cap from what people have told me to master, also I hope she'll teach me good positioning and map aweness. Of course im gonna be playing her in bots for awhile before going to normals then ranked but ranked is probally a month away. As I do not want to hinder my team with improper play. I'd just like to thank everyone here for their suggestions. I wish more players in league were as nice. Its refreshing to see not everyone is a troll.

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