Can Kindred get some QoL changes?

Domermac·1/16/2018, 5:28:34 PM·3 votes·386 views

Hello, I really enjoy the idea of kindred as a champion in most every aspect. I would really like to play her more however I find it difficult with how clunky she feels.

Specifically I find her AA animation to be a little rough as well as her Q. The time it takes for her to jump, do damage and then re-auto feels too long and clunky. As a ranged AA champion, she is quite squishy and the delay after jump leaves her quite susceptible. One idea would be to increase the speed she jumps (decrease time from A to B) and decrease time from Q damage to auto animation. This would allow her to move faster after a Q to continue orb walking.

Not sure if this is a big ask but seems relatively easy to do and doesn't change her number balances.

4 Comments

Queen Of Tears1/16/2018, 5:48:51 PM1 votes

ive been begging for kindred buffs for a long time friend, I never really thought of that but it sounds good along with making it to were the enemy jungler cant see your marks, Why would they need to be able to see them? It would just solidify the idea that they have to clear their jungle.

sadaiblast1/16/2018, 5:49:11 PM1 votes

Personally I always felt like her jumping shouldn't interrupt her autoattacking. Maybe it would make her too strong at kiting if she could continue to autoattack even while in her jump animation but i always felt like kindred should be able to at least finish her current autoattack mid jump, she already does that to some degree but its very inconsistent and clunky when it does happen. I dunno, what do you think?

Naalith1/16/2018, 6:45:39 PM1 votes

You just have to be careful what you wish for with that kind of thing. They did a mini-rework of Kindred a while ago and it basically made the champion way more clunky and killed any build diversity they had. You used to be able to do a really fun HP shred build with Devourer, Runaan's, etc and the passive felt super important and impactful. Now the passive feels like it's pretty meh after 4 marks collected, which is a shame.

Basically what I'm saying is Riot killed the unique parts of Kindred and turned them into a classic crit ADC who usually builds all the same things bottom laners do, which really blows because there used to be like 4 different way good builds. I still play them but that rework basically made me stop playing the champion until they got a bit of a bump with the new runes.