I remember someone making a good point awhile ago in that Kindred is a high risk low reward sort of champion, and I agree. Even if you get lots of stacks early on, many of the other popular junglers are stronger than her at most or all stages in the game with less risk.
That said, I really like Kindred and their lore and design is amazing. I'd love to see Kindred get some small buffs. Maybe the balance team could choose a couple from:
- Increase Kindred's movement speed from 325 to maybe 335. She feels SO slow!
- Increase Kindred's AA range from 500 to 550.
- Adjust Dance of Arrow's reduced CD from 4/3.5/3/2.5/2 seconds to maybe 3/2.75/2.5/2.25/2 seconds.
- Maybe give Kindred a heal based on full completion of Mounting Dread or maybe make it so that Kindred heals for a % of the damage dealt by Wolf during Wolf's Frenzy since Kindred has no sustain in the jungle and the removal of her passive heal last year.
- Give Kindred bonus attack speed when Wolf's Frenzy is active.
and not getting literally annihilated by every single meta jungler, I just want to play my favorite jungler and actually have a fighting chance, its actually painful at this point.