Kindred has a such an original and innovative kit
You mark
enemy champions, dash with your attacks
, make a zone where you are stronger, and the same ability has a heal
(fuck those pillars), deal %max hp
damage with 3 auto attacks, and an active slow
, holy shit 3 auto attacks,
what
an
original
concept
that
we've
never
(refresh tiger and phoenix) seen
before
ever
. Yep, we've absolutely never seen a mechanic like this, based on 3 auto attacks! And let's not forget the AoE
circle ultimate that makes people not die
. Yes sir we've got some innovative stuff. Stuff that absolutely no champion can do! Stuff like being a ranged jungler with sustain
or being able to play mind games with passives etc. 
. And we even see counter jungling tools
because this item has working out so well. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. You can also permanently gain stats for killing something
.
Fucking ground breaking. Seriously, I wouldn't mind another simple champion, or even something that is just more unique and fun, like
. He's one of the easiest junglers, but nobody else can do what he does because his kit. Sure,
kinda can, but it's not quite the same. And speaking on uniqueness,
is literally the only champion in over 1.5 years that doesn't have mobility. The only other that comes close is
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 (
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.
may have been a hellacious assassin, but let's be honest, that was all he could do outside split pushing.
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.
and nearly every champion before him had a weakness, whereas new champions do not.
's weakness was not playing the game for a month until he got nerfed. Even absolute monsters like
had some weakness at some point. Look at
or even
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.
and old
were late game gods, but have horrible laning. If Kass had to fight
, 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
late and stronger than
early. However, there are plenty of champions like that now.
TL;DR: New champions are unoriginal and make
's kit look under-loaded.