It seems death is dead

AgeOfTheMage··4 votes·408 views

okay, for those of you that didn't get the title, i'm talking about kindred. Kindred has always been a favorite of mine, ever since I first started playing and saw them in the shop I instantly wanted them immediately. but.... Ever since patch 6.13 riot destroyed them and then just kinda set them off to the side to be forgotten about. Every time I open up patch notes I get excited hoping to see at least something about kindred and yet, up to this most recent patch there has been nothing. Sure, she can clear jungle camps pretty quickly and kill monsters with ease, but her problem is against champions. Kindred's marks can help a ton when fighting the only problem is actually getting them, most junglers nowadays can just destroy the camp before she gets there, or they might be in wait, and even if they knew the enemy jg was there they wouldn't be able to fight them unless their jg had gone afk and was having a rough start. all and all her kit is interesting and she seems pretty mobile but her q is kindred's only mobility spell and due to the increased cooldown it made her less mobile, and due to the other nerfs she has little sustain in combat(unless you build straight up lifesteal) what are you guys's thoughts? (sorry if I refer to kindred as a she, just out of habit, not sure why)

edit: If you look down in the comments below darkslayer made a pretty good point, what do you think?

2nd edit: I feel like kidnreds main problem is just movement speed so she can reach her marks faster.

11 Comments

Darkslayer852 votes

They don't need buffs, it should be more clear you should help Kindred with their marks.

I was taking a marked Gromp one game, and my midlaner just stole it. When I asked them why they took a marked target, they just said: What's a mark?

https://i.imgflip.com/1b3p9x.jpg

I think there should be a tooltip whenever you have interactions like this. Kind of like how there's a thing on the side showing you how to activate DJ Sona's music.

"You have a Kindred on your team. Helping them with marks will help them get more powerful."

Another thing that could help is that assisting Kindred with a mark will give you EXP equivalent to a minion wave. This means that if an ally leaves to help them with a mark, they won't fall as behind.

AgeOfTheMage1 votes

yeah, over 90% of the time I play solo que and I try to ask my teammates to guard my marks and heres some things that happen:

  1. they kill it thinking thats how they protect it(understandable)
  2. they don't help you cause they have to stay in lane(understandable)
  3. they don't listen to me at all
  4. they actually help also 10/10 I approve of your meme
AgeOfTheMage1 votes

also upvote for you cause the extra exp would be a great idea to help encourage laners to help kindred! :D

18 NAKED COWB0YS1 votes

you have no idea how happy i am kindred isnt played that much anymore. that champion was the most annoying pile of shit riot ever came up with in the past 2 years ( and they came up with a lot of shit). now graves is my next target and i pray to every god there is he gets nerfed to true balance one day.

everytime i see a graves walk past me or near me i get triggered. i hate his face i hate the way he walks i hate his FUCKING playerbase who KNOW hes stupidly strong but just ABUSE HIM EVERY GAMEEEE

AgeOfTheMage1 votes

XD

BeeCuz1 votes
AgeOfTheMage1 votes

I probably should've done more research, never used champion.gg before I probably should start doing so. just i never see any kindred players anymore and looking at her play rate.... i'm pretty sure a champs play rate affects thier win rate.

AgeOfTheMage2 votes

decides to look at your match history jesus thats alot of zyra

AgeOfTheMage1 votes

yay for -1 votes :D

AgeOfTheMage1 votes

oooh now it's -2!

AgeOfTheMage1 votes

:DDDD it's back to -1! (i'm bored atm)

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