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A New Kindred Nerf

Pnakotic·6/21/2016, 4:43:31 AM·3 votes·728 views
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Base armor lowered to 20 from 27 Armor growth increased to 3.5 from 3.25 Wolf's Frenzy (W): [no longer heals] Wolf's Frenzy (W) [new effect] Wolf's attacks vs monster to now slow target's attack and movement speed by 50% for 2 seconds.

If you don't want Jungle with Kindred, make it clear ... If the patch goes on like that, you just kill the jungle Kindred, so the char (you can't really go in lane with them), it's like you delete the character purely and simply.

Kindred in a good spot, you can't nerf like that without up (if you want your mark ...) now all the jungler will go destroying you in your jungle (no sustain, no armor ) How you can deal with it, when your mobility, dmg (and now) sustain, was gut to the hell ???

Riot want Kindred to be a Hyper carry like Vayne. (bad early but good late) But the fact you need your mark in early game to make your late game to be inappropriate (you need to put yourself in some risky situations) because you're way too dependent on your mark. Your MS is crap, your Range is crap too.

-add some new effect of your mark (raw stats) (like range ms or what ever else) -make easy your first mark.

You'd might want to consider some UP.

Ps; sorry for my english not my native language, thank in advance for reading me.

8 Comments

Febos6/21/2016, 4:53:46 AM2 votes

You should read the reasoning behind that change. A Rioter actually explained why they are making that change. I'm not saying that I agree, but there's a reason.

I personally don't think that change is a good one. It feels like a useless passive tbh. Shaco has that same passive (in his E) and I don't find it all that useful. The thing about Kindred is that it takes practise to know how to kyte and that's why she had that small heal. If you know how to kyte then you won't lose any hp. On the other hand, if you don't know how to kyte, then you won't make it past the first or second camp without basing.

That change is to make Kindred more simple. I still don't like it.

Twitch Chat6/21/2016, 4:47:24 AM1 votes

do you really think clearing is going to be hard with a 50% attack speed slow on the new W? do you really think that the first mark is actually difficult to get?

BloodyTompon6/21/2016, 5:29:31 AM1 votes

That attack speed slow is very large. That reduces the damage done to you especially if you are not very good at kiting against monsters. Reducing damage done to you is a way of increasing sustain.

MisterShameless6/21/2016, 6:24:08 AM1 votes

Kindred has strong clear time and good kiting on jungles. I'm happy for this nerf and hope this is the last nerf to make Kindred manageable in the early game. Kindred usually leaves the jungle with full health from what I've experienced in the top lane when Kindred ganks me. I'm not saying for Kindred to leave the jungle at 40% hp, but more around 70%-75% range of health instead of the current standard of 90%+.