Kayn is what duo champs should be (Kayn and Kindred talk)
Duo champions. They are the the idea of 2 characters that are playable with 1 actual entity that you play as. A duo champion features 2 different voices and interact with one another ingame through voice or abilities (Kayn and Rhaast talking to one another and Kindred having Lamb use Wolf in her abilities). Kayn takes this idea of 2 characters in one very well you have the first stage of Kayn and Rhaast them both interacting and being 1 character then you have the choice you can choose to become Rhaast and change from the young man carrying the scythe and killing fools to the ancient Darkin from another world Rhaast who cleaves everyone in his wake and they even have lines mentioning the falling character so you know that this character remembers them Rhaast refers to Kayn as the "great Kayn" showing how he respects Kayns fight against him and Kayn referring to Rhaast as his species name (Darkin) and not his name (Except for 1 line) showing his arrogance and how he always believed that he would snuff out Rhaast, overcome the corruption, and become greater then even Zed.
Now this is where I talk about Kindred and how they show the bad side of a duo champion.
Kindred the embodiment of death one poetic and another ruthless and beastly who gives you the choice of Lambs quick death of her arrow or the jaws and chase that Wolf will give. From a idea perspective these characters sound really appealing the idea of 2 characters with 2 different personalities and potential for great gameplay involving changing from the peaceful reaper Lamb who will use her arrows to kill you will being from a distance and the predatory reaper who will chase after you and get way to close for comfort. Yet what did we get ingame? Lamb who will sometimes use Wolf this being used to the point where people will only refer to Kindred as "she" or "Lamb" leaving Wolf in the shadow as just some pet or ability and less of a character. Its very disappointing that Kindred is reverted to something like that leaving mainly their quotes and lore to show that they arent just 1 character with some death mutt following them. Kindred could be a much more fun champion if the champion could be played from both sides to allow a player who doesnt want to or prefers a playstyle rather then Lambs adc behavior but still enjoy the character to not just pick someone else.
I have a idea to solve this problem. Obviously a gameplay update would need to happen to them ofcourse due to how they're lore and models are they dont need to do a VGU. Next take the champion and look at how you can incorporate Wolf into her obviously a TRANSFORMATION ability but too many junglers have that now a days where this would be redundant to just put the transforming on a standard QWE ability and the R just wouldnt do but what is something that makes sense for Kindred to go after ingame and something that fits the lore? The PASSIVE. Have the bounty hunting passive bring in a new unique way of transforming where depending on the bounty you go for will show you who will be able to take over and allow the player to control. Just having it be kill a monster with a bounty can give you the ability to turn into Wolf whose gameplay will be very fast and crazed showing the true chase in action involving movement and damage to compensate if Wolf gets near his prey and changing the Ultimate from saving every life to Wolf going mad with hunger and either devouring 1 champion or have his deathly powers drain enemies to fuel his hunger. Killing champions who died to you will the bounty will give you the graceful Lamb who wouldnt really change and just be like the Lamb in the live servers aside from maybe changes her abilites to show less wolf as they would be 2 different playstyles additionally the transformations would be on cooldown for X amount after changing forms locked by either a timer or a amount of bounties you must claim in order to release the other form. I believe if these changes were made or something very similar that includes Wolf as a playable character would make the character a lot more enjoyable and popular as I from personal experience love Wolfs personality but since he isnt playable I could never get into Kindred.
TLDR- Kayn shows how a duo champion should be and how Kindred doesn't and how they can change the champion to make them a true duo champ that they deserve to be.
Thoughts and ideas about this are greatly appreciated P.S I didnt know if this shouldve went into gameplay or Story, art and sound but this I talked about abilities and ingame what not I thought here would be better.
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. Willump [zombie-brand-clap]