Kindred is kinda... ouch right now.

I've been playing since kin's release, as and against kindred, and let me tell you how much I hated going against that champ.. Kindred was always a perma ban on my list and it was no surprise why they were everybody else's to, consistently staying around 50% banrate longer than zed I believe.

Lately though... I kinda feel sorry. For one I don't know why people are still banning kindred, I guess people just hold that grudge, but look at this..

http://imgur.com/KcOrVTH.png

Thats kinda sad actually. I remember kindred was such a hyped champion, sure she was broken, but the fanbase around her was HUGE!.. almost as big as ahri actually... but that playrate? That dropped so hard...

Bad play rate+Bad Winrate+KDA worse than Vladimir, how is kindred even a meta pick anymore?

Now I know what the argument will be.. "kindred will just be broken again and no one wants that" and yea, its tricky to come up with a solution to fixing her. Honestly I still feel like the heal on her W should return.. the E slow nerf, thats respectable, thats honestly all kindred needed from the start is the Q CD and E variables adjusted, and maybe a fix to her ult, the actual broken part... the W? The W didn't do anything that broke her kit, the broken aspects was either the kiting (fine compared to other kiting champs ), the slow from E making them seem hopeless from getting away, might as well been a stun, and the R was such a game changer, both good and bad.

I feel like kindred should either 1: Get their W heal back 2: Increase base AD a bit

Something that was taken away, needs given back as clearly not everything given to her factored to being broken. Maybe give her the W passive, but remove the healing part of their ultimate? Making the last ability/auto from either player actually feel like a last hit trade than a who burst/kites first. Maybe reduce the duration of the ult so it doesn't last for an entirely too long time during teamfights to make that massive difference.

The main issue I had with dealing against kindreds was their level 2-3 pressure... but we ain't nerfing jungle due to level 2s or invades.