R.I.P. Kindred

Rene Storm·Jun 2, 2017·2 votes·573 views

Kindred was always that champion picked when your team needed a GRADE A tank destroyer, with their % damage, all you needed to do was focus on getting their marks and killing their prey. Attack damage Was NOT a core focus on them, only attack speed , meaning if early game was a struggle, if properly played, they could dominate the late game with all the marks they accumulated along the way. Now Kindred is absolute garbage. She has to be played with Damage now, and she absolutely tickles tanks, there is no reason to pick her anymore, She's basically a mediocre Vi without the nice ult. I say revert their changes because Kindred is completely Bronze Tier.

8 Comments

King of DemonsJun 2, 20172 votes

Learn to play with it, she is way better now.

Hexs FortuneJun 2, 20172 votes

Kindred had their power shifted to early and late game.

Sp33d Zer0Jun 2, 20172 votes

It's been less than 24 hours. Let the dust settle.

Silly NeekoJun 2, 20171 votes

They did not remove it, they took it off her autos. It is now magic damage on her W for current health, and increased damage on her 3rd hit of E on missing health. If you played her correctly then you would see that she would prefer crit strike attack speed sustain rather than attack damage.

Automated RivenJun 2, 20171 votes

Just also wanted to add on here and point out that this was the point of the rework. Rushing item 3153 item 1418 is not going to be as effective anymore. Plus she scales incredibly hard with gaining 100-125 bonus attack range later in the game. She out matches cait for safety late game with her 2 second dash and ulti.

Rebel Phoenix17Jun 3, 20171 votes

Don't forget item 3153 is still fine on her anyway. She still has a %current on Wolf, and Wolf's attack speed scales with her own so Botrk + new Q gives her great DPS for the 8.5 second wolf time, which is more than enough to shred and use E as an execute.

Sure our %current dmg is down some, but the rest of the changes more than make up for it since now your Q, W, and E actually have meaningful damage. I no longer feel like garbage because i lost auto attacks by using Q since wolf damage continues and my Q does measurable amounts of damage now. Even better that using Q gets me more autos now.

ThePikolJun 2, 20171 votes

True, Kindred's early is just too weak. You can't go to enemy jg to get Marks because you lack dmg

AvienalJun 2, 20172 votes

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True, Kindred's early is just too weak. You can't go to enemy jg to get Marks because you lack dmg

Once she gets some AD items under her belt and she hits her 4th stack, you can already notice the difference. Some of her kit works more like a assassin then some shredding blitzkrieg TF2 scout who just rushes a heavy and tries to beat them to death and sometimes manage if they are 'fed enough'.

The main thing is Kindred is now a proper AD marksman similar to Graves instead of a insane no damage high utility nutjob of a damage dealer. Granted i will miss old jungle waifu, but i can enjoy this new style of my jungle waifu since she actually feels like some of her damage is better in the early game. But she could use her first 4 jungle marks only appearing on her side and scuttle crab to give her fair feed to work with.

Plus Kindred 's new abilities makes her insanely strong in synergizing with items like item 3094 and Critical chance because of the E 'critical bonus with Wolf's attack' scaling with crit strike 'empowerment' and missing health stack empowerment' and being able to throw wolf with W to set up a hunting ground without her having to get too close, which means she can chip damage a target first before engaging and leave her E as a proper 'finish off' then rush it out at the beginning just to burst a bunch of dmg.

Once she gets some fine tuning, i'm sure she'll have a better impact, but for now i'd say we'll have to leave that in the hands of proper experienced players to develop effective playstyles with her to the maximum potential she likely will provide in the new kit design.

[slayer-jinx-catface]

Not to mention her new build design and Q empowering her Attack speed based on how many marks she has lets her turn into a much stronger turret busting power house that most 'low damage' but high % dmg setups kindred originally was setup with pretty much made her more of a rush killer of enemies and the jungle/minions then helping much on objectives like towers, beyond the typical auto attack spam.

In many ways, Kindred's new kit reminds me of Tristana when she used to be a true menance and makes me wish Trist gets a bit of a rework soon to fix her up as they did with plenty of other champions.