What do you think Kindred's Balance State will be upon Release?
I've played them quite a bit on the PBE and I personally believe that they'll be decently strong once people get the hang of them. The main issue they have is that their Kit has a ton of auto attack cancelers. Q cancels, W stops autos upon the initial cast and the E and R have cast times. Due to this, they feel clunky in the early game and their damage output takes a hit. That quickly disappears however as you purchase attack-speed items and the animations quicken up. They really do become monsters as the game goes on.
On average a Kindred will probably have around 8-10 stacks by the 35 minute mark and even higher if they are actively hunting the proper targets. The amount of health shred between your passive and BotRK is insane. Tanks will actually cry.
Their ult is useful but can easily cause their Team to lose if mistimed. It's even more polarized than Bard's ult in terms of just how hard you can mess it up. In terms of mobility, it's strong but no where near Kalista levels of stupid. 2 seconds is much easily for enemies to deal with, the jump distance isn't that long, their Base MS is only 325 and they have no innate MS boosts.
Overall I think they'll be looked at as weak upon release, but as people begin to learn the ways of the Kindred, they'll be solid picks.
https://41.media.tumblr.com/2f6f7d8bc6c12ed00429506b6c779758/tumblr_nvctmbLVZ81s0adc8o1_500.jpg
