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seriously, is no one talking about kindred?

GoodJobMan·3/29/2017, 10:40:46 PM·2 votes·994 views

legit. This champion is the only one i've seen with meager complaints about how weak they are. This champ used to be S+ tier, picked and banned. Now they're bottom tier garbage who aren't worth putting the effort into despite their incredibly cool design kit and lore. To play kindred in season 7 you need to focus on marks, but how are you gonna do that if the ones that aren't scuttle crab can get you killed? They're base stats are pathetic and it makes it almost impossible to contest marks. Its a complete waste to have such a unique and different champion fall into the forgotten gutter where the only people that play her are one tricks. Riot has completely ignored kindred for the longest time and it is unfair to abandon such a cool champion and its playerbase

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jinxedchef3/30/2017, 12:48:36 AM3 votes

Kindred is poor champ design, so she won't ever be balanced without a rework. She was real strong and now really weak those are the only 2 states she can be. Her passive is a hot mess. Currently she is forced to put herself in danger to get early marks when she isn't strong enough to 1v1. Before her marks were so easy to get she just out scaled the other jungler and then took over the enemy's jungle to get even more marks.

Her whole identity and thus her strength is wrapped up in getting marks that it becomes a binary thing. After any nerf/buff either the marks are meaningless and her identity suffers or the mark are real important and become the foremost way she scales.