SO Kindred's ult heals enemies...?

LifeSmasher·9/15/2015, 8:59:27 PM·2 votes·7,655 views

From the video on the champion reveal page, it shows Kalista being healed by Kindred's ult. I can just see how this is going to ruin so many team fights for people. Not only is it like a bard ult throwing people into statis (enemies and friends) but you are also going to give them a heal at the end of it. People are going to be making things a lot harder for their own teams and it's not their fault. Because that's just how the champion was created. You think you will turn around the teamfight for your team but wait more enemy champs got the heal than friendly champs. Just like Bard you are gonna have to have a lot of team coordination to use that ult.

How does everyone else see this going? Am I wrong for thinking it's gonna be difficult to use properly?

8 Comments

RisenDarkKnight9/15/2015, 9:37:10 PM4 votes

I think ideally you pick him in a long range comp with some solid peel. Like with alistar/nautilus front line to keep the enemy out of the zone and long range champions like xerath/ziggs and twich/jinx to dps from in the zone to the enemy front line.

Ergono9/15/2015, 9:16:09 PM2 votes

What Riot is doing is:

A) creating a team play environment. Where your team needs to have the capability to cover for Kindred's short comings. Imagine a Thresh who saves his knock back and ult to push enemies outside of the aura and then traps them from getting back in or neutralizing a divers engage, essentially cutting their front line from the rest of the team. Just Imagine Thresh, Galio, Vayne, Xin etc. etc.

B) Deciding to tighten up on reigns of where a champion can be (See Mordekaiser ) You are going to start seeing champs like Morde being tailored to a specific lane while weak in others. In Contrast champions who can multi-lane will be relatively weaker to a single lane counterpart.

Kindred's Ult is like Morde's Dragon when its on the map everybody wants it friend or foe. When the enemy see's Kindred's ult its going to be like Wal-Mart on Black Friday everyone wants in. Your job is to coordinate and punish the enemy team when they try to get in.

One situation is that you cast Ult everyone starts whacking at everyone but saves their ult if they can and then push the enemy out of the circle prior to the heal. I can see interesting combinations with Mordekaiser as his Ult steals %HP and heals himself for 100% of the DMG.

This way he can freely crush an opponent with his Q have enough time for another potential Q except he saves the last hit until after everyone is healed. Cast Ult to basically remove the enemies healed health and finish them off getting the kill and a double heal not including if he casts his W.

But I think good play around Kindred's Ult is baiting your enemy to use their ult and saving yours while doing enough damage so that you can nuke them after the heal.

omplaloompa9/16/2015, 3:39:42 PM1 votes

I honestly think this champion is going to be a complete mess in bronze. People are gunna be using it incorrectly and helping the enemy team rather than their own thus causing more flame and negativity. Does anyone see where Im coming from? Also if its gunna heal ANYONE then I think that they should make he range a little smaller.

DrCyanide9/16/2015, 4:26:54 PM1 votes

I see this becoming 4 second dance parties in the middle of the game, I don't know about the rest of you.

justAn3rd9/16/2015, 11:49:07 PM

mhm this would be a bad champ unless riot accidentally did it...