Kindred has a such an original and innovative kit

Visigoth··6 votes·1,125 views

You mark Garen Quinn Fiora enemy champions, dash with your attacks Vayne Kalista, make a zone where you are stronger, and the same ability has a heal Maokai Hecarim Skarner (fuck those pillars), deal %max hp KogMaw damage with 3 auto attacks, and an active slowVayne Gnar Mordekaiser, holy shit 3 auto attacks, Vi what XinZhao an Volibear original Diana concept Aatrox that RekSai we've Jax never Udyr (refresh tiger and phoenix) seen TahmKench before Ekko everBraum TwistedFate. Yep, we've absolutely never seen a mechanic like this, based on 3 auto attacks! And let's not forget the AoE Maokai Bard Galio JarvanIV circle ultimate that makes people not die Zilean Tryndamere item 3157 item 3026 Yorick Anivia Lissandra Bard Kalista. Yes sir we've got some innovative stuff. Stuff that absolutely no champion can do! Stuff like being a ranged jungler with sustain Fiddlesticks or being able to play mind games with passives etc. ShacoLeblanc RekSai Nocturne. And we even see counter jungling tools item 3711 because this item has working out so well. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. You can also permanently gain stats for killing something Nasus Sion Veigar Rengar item 3930.

Fucking ground breaking. Seriously, I wouldn't mind another simple champion, or even something that is just more unique and fun, like Nunu. He's one of the easiest junglers, but nobody else can do what he does because his kit. Sure, Chogath kinda can, but it's not quite the same. And speaking on uniqueness, Velkoz is literally the only champion in over 1.5 years that doesn't have mobility. The only other that comes close is Bard with his journey. But, like Vel'Koz, nobody plays Bard because he's actually balanced. Before Vel'Koz, there were not too many champions with metric fucktons of mobility. And the ones that did have mobility (Kassadin Leblanc Yasuo etc.) were nerfed plenty, some of which still are absolutely unplayable to this day. Riot please, stop trying to make every new champion be a one man army. Zed may have been a hellacious assassin, but let's be honest, that was all he could do outside split pushing. Khazix maybe be an absurd damage dealer to single targets, but as soon as you have an ally he needs to rethink his tactics. All the recent champions look like Riot is trying to create Vayne 2.0. Seriously, fuck Gnar and Azir when they came out. They were absolutely retarded. Gnar had range, melee, hard CC, single target, AoE, soft CC, poke, all in, single target a heal, a dash, good laning, great late game and team fighting. There was nothing he didn't have. Velkoz and nearly every champion before him had a weakness, whereas new champions do not. Ekko's weakness was not playing the game for a month until he got nerfed. Even absolute monsters like Fizz had some weakness at some point. Look at Olaf or even Renekton in their current states. Absolute terror early game, they will 2v1 and win 99% of the time. But late game, they are a meat shield nearly useless. Nasus and old Kassadin were late game gods, but have horrible laning. If Kass had to fight Talon, he would be crushed into oblivion early, but late game to decent, because Kass had strong late game but Talon had good laning, especially vs Kass. Gnar on the other hand can beat any lane bully early, while having safety from junglers, and still scale way harder late game. There should never be a champion that is stronger than Akali late and stronger than Pantheon early. However, there are plenty of champions like that now.

TL;DR: New champions are unoriginal and make LeeSin's kit look under-loaded.

9 Comments

xxxMadLionxxx1 votes

The only thing unique with this champ is that it's an adc in the jungle. But then again Vayne can probably do a better job with sated.

Erockandroll1 votes

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The only thing unique with this champ is that it's an adc in the jungle. But then again Vayne can probably do a better job with sated.

You should check the PBE. Right now Sated Devourer's Phantom hit passive has been changed to every 4th Attack for ranged champions. It really seems like Riot does not want to promote ADC's in the Jungle.

AtheosisX1 votes

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You should check the PBE. Right now Sated Devourer's Phantom hit passive has been changed to every 4th Attack for ranged champions. It really seems like Riot does not want to promote ADC's in the Jungle.

Except for those that they design specifically for it. But Riot doesn't enforce the meta right?

Erockandroll1 votes

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Except for those that they design specifically for it. But Riot doesn't enforce the meta right?

There is a lot of problems Even trying to contemplate how you would get a range Auto Attacker into the Jungle. For starters. Compared to Melee carrys. Ranged carrys trade Defenses and Sustain for their range. so they are more reliant on Positioning for preventing damage. That's a luxury you don't have as a Jungler, cause if you try to kite, the camps resets. A Jungler ADC wouldn't be able to clear camp as safely and healthy as a Melee, And you can't make that up stat wise without it becoming oppressive outside of the Jungle.

The only way that would work is if you designed the kit specifically to be good in the Jungle. Like they did with Kindred. And that, really limits what they can do outside of the Jungle.

And about the ranged devourer nerf. I thought it might have just been a way to prevent Vayne getting it with her Silver bolts yes. But do you know who that really screws up? Kayle. It will stunt her DPS as an AP/AS fighter. Greatly.

ReshiKillim1 votes

Lee counters Kindred~

Rito Staff1 votes

hahahaha -- but they are trying to innovate tho :3 and we have been seeing the results in the lattest champions, wether new or reworked ones.

Sion ult, fiora ult mechanics, kalista ult too... bard ult... ekko ult... kindred... *=_= notices pattern

BluePolarizer1 votes

This is what people want though.

Trading Aces1 votes

The downvotes are from circle jerking idiots who defend the champ purely because of the aesthetic. They're stupid.

Doctor Jarvis1 votes

Why does every champion need to hit ground no other champion has? Every marksman is basically the same (Steroid, dash/MS buff, ranged damaging ultimate) with, obviously, some exceptions. Sometimes its nice to not have to keep up with some new mechanic just because the new champion says you have to pay attention now.

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