seriously, is no one talking about kindred?

GoodJobMan·Mar 29, 2017·2 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

3 Comments

jinxedchefMar 30, 20173 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.

GoodJobManMar 30, 20172 votes

you dont have to make a champion overpowered to give them a fighting chance in the early game. She has the most pathetic base stats in the game. And when i mean a cool champ design i mean in terms of look at kit. She is an extremely unique and cool champion that makes no sense to forget because she is probably one of riots best creations. Kindred mains arent asking riot to make her as overpowered as she was, they just want a fighting chance against meta jungler.

jinxedchefMar 30, 20171 votes

But that is my point. You can't give her good or even average base stats, because if you did, once she got some marks she would be over tuned. Unless you gave her average base stats and then made her passive very weak. In which case, you have no point in bothering to get the marks(ala Skarner passive). And frankly her whole identity is wrapped up in this "hunter" theme for which the stacks are important.