Regarding Kindred's Nerfs/Buffs

T1GK·9/26/2017, 3:33:31 AM·2 votes·143 views

As a person who mainly plays ranged mages, I found kindred to be very interesting. The idea of kiting camps, and choosing who you would like to kill and getting rewarded for that. With the removal of kindred's passive W, and many other nerfs they have becomea rarely picked champion.

It dissappoints me to see such an amazing design basically go to waste because of their lack of pure usefullness. I myself have been playing kindred an awful lot and have found a few things that could be changed to make them a more viable pick in games.

  1. Increase chasing abilities. Kindred originally excelled at chasing/ganking in games because of their q w e combo. Easily catching up to quick champs. The issue I keep finding id being just a bit to far away to make that ladt auto attack for the kill. I think that to make up for that, kindreds Q should proc their e. Making chasing a more useful way of ganking. I mean their whole idea is chasing them down, right?

  2. Change marks a bit. Getting many marks early game takes time to master, and rewards you in return with farther range and AD, but having a bad early game even with marks can go against you. Once 8 marks are complete, it starts going to drake and baron. I think this should be saved for mark 10+. So that if a kindred is behind in gold, that they can still output damage to come back.

  3. W Kindreds W is a great ganking tool that reduces one of their main DMG outputs to ~2 seconds. Though this is good as is, I think that wolf should prioritize enemy champions, again to help with the whole chasing concept. It feels kinda weird that wolf, the one who goes on and on about chasing, barely does any at all. And starts attacking minions while the enemy yi is at 20hp and is ulting away.

Though all of these changes at once would for sure make kindred overpowered, I beleive that one of these should be implumented to help increase kindred's pick rate and overall effectiveness in games.

Please Riot notice this, and if you have any thoughs I would LOVE to hear them.

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Thanks, T1GK

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