My thoughts on Kindred
Kindred's teaser first of all was amazing. It gave me chills, the fierce and violent voice of the wolf with the serene and passive counterpart. After seeing the splash art, I was blown away. It was probably the best i've ever seen in the game. But then came the in game figure.
http://download.gamezone.com/uploads/image/data/1191380/Kindred.jpg What the hell is that thing? Is it suppose to be a Lamb? It looks like a black guy dressed in a party panda suit while doing ballet and holding a huge antler. That's really the lamb? If i didnt already know that i NEVER would've guessed it.
The auto attacks seemed so much like a combination of Zyra and kalista's autoattacks. Autoattacking things bright litterally the exact same feel. Also her q STRONGLY resembles Kalista's dash animation. Overall i feel like this could've been created so much better.
The wolf on the other hand was impressive. It was beautiful, and brought the overpowering feeling while controling it.
I can't really get much from the animations because it was bugged and stuff, but the voices were absolutely amazing. It really seemed that both voices really captured the feeling that Riot was aiming for with this champion.
Functionally, I feel that Kindred was awkward to play because if you try to kite the monsters, (which i assumed was necessary since she's an adc) the monsters will reset. That being said, Kindred needed to stand in one spot autoing unless you want to risk resetting the monsters.
Her Q could've been more useful. It only affected the Lamb side of Kindred so that was a little of a letdown. Her W was interesting since it focused on the Wolf part of Kindred, though i noticed that the Wolf didnt scale with attack speed, so it was a little weaker than it should be lategame. Her E was probably my favorite. Seeing the Wolf pounce at the enemy was just... amazing. It overall looks beautiful and deals an appropiate amount of damage Her R was weird af. lol.. It seems like its more used for saving enemies, Like bard ult. That will probably go more into what Wolf and Lamb symbolism, but hey im not an english teacher so i cant tell you that haha Lamb represents Passive death(?) ie. natural causes or life Wolf represents Murder(?) I think Wolf fits it's role pretty well but Lamb... you shouldn't be helping and HEALING the enemy.