Kindred

I love the concept an lore behind Kindred, however in terms of in-game performance, I think the developers did the character as a whole wrong. Kindred's very weak in early game, barely dealing any sufficient damage to the enemy, especially on top of their already slow movement and attack speed. Kindred takes alot of damage, but can't deal the same back to their opponents, resulting in lane disadvantages, even in 1v1 scenarios. For an ADC, they depend on the team too much. They feel more like a support character than a carry. I've also seen some people argue that, in exchange for their poor early game performance, they're quite OP in late game. I disagree with this as, by the time they complete their build in late game, the enemy team's already fed, so there's really no point in completing a build against a group of strong and fed enemy champions, especially if they team up. Literally any stat Kindred has, another champion trumps them in those specific areas. You want good attack and movement speed? Go Master Yi. You want the best range? Go Caitlyn. Damage? Literally 50 other champions trump them in damage stats. There's nothing good or strong about Kindred that makes up for their lack of specialty in stats. On the subject of their passive ability, there's really no point of trying to obtain the marks either, due to the same reasons above.(Crappy early game stats). The character needs some serious rework and buffs at this point. Kindred's slow, squishy, and does little damage. It's really unfortunate to see such a well aesthetically made character do so badly in game, just because of a biased and incompetent character balancing team.

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They aren’t weak early... they still have an extremely strong dual potential once u hit lvl 3 and have a point in all three. You should win most fights unless u get ccd or jumped on. (Barring the particularly strong jg matchups). What they are is strong early, average midgame (if no stacks are taken) and strong late if they have more than 6 stacks... they were reworked so that they’d be less dependent on stacks. When it’s quite easy to get a 60-70% AS steroid from Q, there really is no need for a buff to attack speed.

Kindred is designed to be a champion that evaluates risks to potentially get an extremely high reward. Learn how to path better and which runes suit ur playstyle (press the attack, lethal tempo and conqueror are their best runes atm, with hail of blades also being a potential contender)

That's the thing. Anyone any good in the jungle will be able to jump on you. There don't exist many champions who can still jungle that can't do that.

Kindred used to be a champion that evaluated risk for an extremely high reward. They changed the reward, and now it's nowhere near good enough for the risk it entails. Unfortunately, they made fixes to the mark spawn points after that change, so we never got to see what Kindred would've looked like with more reliable marks on her better passive.

The issue with trying to tell someone how to play Kindred better is the fact that any enemy jungler on par with you shouldn't lose to a Kindred, either. Let alone ones that are better at their champion.