I'm think I'm done with Kindred.

To start, I like Kindred. I like the lore. I love the VO. Everything about the champ aesthetically works. I bought them first day and I have played them ever since.

Gameplay, however, just isn't up to par.

I don't play ranked, so this is coming from a casual player who has played many games as a jungler, top, and ADC in bot lane.

My main concern is simple:

Kindred is simply too easy to get away from.

Their movement speed is too slow, even with boots, to chase down a target with any reliability. I've had so many people run away from me in lane that it just gets frustrating. The slow on E is great, but Kindred's short range and lack of any real closing ability means you have to get the absolute best gank to make it count. Only in the late game with 8-10 stacks is Kindred relevant. I've taken to trying to build Frozen Mallet to overcome the disparity.

The only build option that has worked with any consistency is full on-hit (Devourer, BotRK, Rapid Firecannon, Statikk Shiv, Runaan's, and Berserker Greaves. Hell, I've thrown in a Wit's End from time when I wasn't in the jungle). Even then, you need a tank to keep from getting bursted.

Add that to the fact that in normals you are apt to run into Yi , Yasuo , and Ekko nearly every game, with the occasional Riven and Teemo to spice things up. These champs can chase down ANYONE and Kindred, the fricking AVATAR OF DEATH, has trouble chasing a Rift Scuttler (I'm exaggerating, of course, but have you ever tried to chase a crab with no stacks? It takes forever).

I understand the lack of damage in light of the passive. I understand Riot was trying to avoid creating another Pentakill monster. But Kindred is simply too slow to make their considerable kit really count. If they won't increase her movement speed, increase the leap distance on the Q and/or make it able to be reduced by cooldown reduction, or give them just one form of HARD CC, i just don't see Kindred as a viable pick any more.