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So what's your final thoughts on Kindred before they're released?

HTM Neru·9/30/2015, 2:51:09 AM·1 votes·505 views

It's almost time for the lamb and wolf to enter the rift! There hasn't been much talk about them passed the first 3 days after initial reveal. I've seen many gameplay on PBE, seen OddOne and other high elo streamers play them. Also seen multiple build paths and heard a lot of their own opinion on Kindred. But what's yours?

Personally I'm on the nonbeliever side right now. I think that they will not fit anywhere in this current meta, if Kindred was designed to be a jungle adc then I say Twitch does a slightly better job. Kindred has way better clear time but Twitch has better ganks.

Her ult can be used incorrectly and possibly benefit the enemy. Her Q doesn't proc on-hits and does not get lower cooldown with levels. The only CC she has is a long cooldown mid range single target 1 second slow so ganking without another form of CC can be hard. No AP ratio on anything so you lose the AP portion of Trinity Force if you decide to build that. There is very little benefit to level up her ult passed level 1 until lv 17-18 as only the cooldown is lowered and the heal is slightly increased, it has no ratio so getting healed by like 100 more hp late game is pretty much meaningless. That's my 2 cents before Kindred is released.

I wonder if the new Marksmen changes will affect Kindred in the jungle, let's wait and see what Rito is cooking up. Until then, let's welcome our spooky jungling duo.

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Jungle Lux God9/30/2015, 3:20:19 AM1 votes

Kindred will not see play unless they are hideously overpowered, Mordekaiser is really strong bot and requires an ADC in the jungle, or the marksman update leaves double ADC comps dominant but the jungle becomes the only place to play an ADC. I don't see any of these happening without any dramatic meta shifts.

Also, I think there's a chance Runaan's Hurricane will be sleeper OP on them because of their on-hit effects. If Sated Devourer got nerfed because of Kindred abuse then there won't be much reason for Runaan's to be really strong on them.