Kindred needs a rework
While I think Kindred is really fun to play, playing her is a huge uphill battle. Her issues are:
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Her whole game seems to be designed around thinking that the enemy is blind and or totally retarded. Legit. "Here's where she needs to go to get a hunt. See that circle? As soon as it runs out she's done". I don't know how anyone above Bronze would ever allow her to get a hunt unless their team was down big.
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Her hunts aren't worth it. Everyone can see where they are. Getting there disrupts farm and sets you up to be destroyed. But if you don't get them, you are weak.
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She has the armor of legit toilet paper. Some of the ADC's feel like they have better armor.
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She's heavily reliant on mana and her mana sucks.
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Her ult is really not that good. It ends up as a rape arena most of the time where both of us enter and by the time it ends, I have no health left and am done. Almost every time I enter it, I have less health than when I started it. Add in her bad armor, and it doesn't help.
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Her clears, while you can take little damage, take forever to accomplish correctly. If I can hit level 6 by 8 minutes, it's sadly a small miracle with the hunts. It's super hard without run's hurricane to get decent farm. She relies on the hurricane more than any champ with any other item in the game.
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No matter how well you do with her, she can be 1v1'd. I had 10 kills and 100 cs up on a Xin and he was going toe to toe with me until the end, getting the better of me sometimes. Meanwhile, you are going to need a few people to take down a fed assassin or tank.
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If you get off to a bad start with her, you are done. It's insanely easy to go from 0-1 with her to 0-5.
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She is pretty slow.
I think she is the riskiest of risky on-meta picks right now and requires serious skill to do anything with. I think she's had so many things done to her that it's time to just rework her.