Kindred Skin
Can we finally get a Bloodmoon Kindred skin? Or perhaps a Reaper Kindred skin? No disrespect intended to the design team, but none besides the default skin captures the essence of what Kindred is. Kindred isn't a spandex wearing cosmic prancing lamb, nor is it a flaming flower. They're the duality of death and should be represented as both beautiful and lethal.
Edit: I realize Kindred isn't a popular champion, I also realize that this post will likely get 0 feedback. If any Riot members read this, maybe just gently whisper "Kindred" as you pass a skin artist. My hopes are not high, I've been asking and waiting for a skin for kindred for ages. Maybe even a chroma set would do.
Besides cosmetics...can Kindred's PvE marks finally get some sort of delay on the map for enemies? For a minigame essential to the champion's scaling it's probably the most blatant. I'm not asking for an invisible bard chime like game, but give us a few seconds head start.
Edit: Well I'm surprised at the show of support for this. Though without some sort of official statement we'll never really know if Kindred is getting a new skin until it's released, whenever that is. Being that their last skin was released on May 26, 2016, at the end of next month it will have been 2 years since Kindred received a skin. Since Kindred's last skin release, this is what has been introduced (this does also include champion release skins and alternate release skins so keep that in mind):
https://i.gyazo.com/ab1beca323dde03c98177f22ee3219df.png https://i.gyazo.com/20d7af6b4da5dbb9afc10e6b3760db32.png https://i.gyazo.com/106249ff136468f34218701941b2cb18.png https://i.gyazo.com/7d00bf3b02469236503ba27ba2843d17.png https://i.gyazo.com/8831bfc5d3e4c0e8c0958ffb71ff136a.png https://i.gyazo.com/27070d89dd7bd6f8c7fdae91b8358b4d.png https://i.gyazo.com/1ffc23d6498fa5deb9c0319670e2923f.png https://i.gyazo.com/98517060fea1ad0054fabb658bd81bd8.png https://i.gyazo.com/ae875b4ce86d7fc8be28480869ae6258.png https://i.gyazo.com/6d0611bc5372f112f1caa51c439c139e.png https://i.gyazo.com/f5e86a2630358e0404da9509b93e27ed.png https://i.gyazo.com/992c71441340ad93201f363ae5ab6fcd.png https://i.gyazo.com/6db016ab12ffb88834db8952a07df167.png https://i.gyazo.com/16836d2bd7caf20a5819cd24d489d0d1.png https://i.gyazo.com/d940062998bd582d21e55696282859b3.png https://i.gyazo.com/3b5df06bd4bc72edcc003e67e9c12d2f.png https://i.gyazo.com/63d2497eb035713f5626ff3939f6d669.png
You'll notice a few re-occurring champions in that time span, such as Annie. There are some champions who have not received a skin since before kindred's last skin, however all of those champions have 2x-3x Kindred's skin count. It's no wonder why Kindred isn't often played or purchased; because they've haven't seen any attention cosmetically or mechanically for the last 2 years and 1 year respectively. The rework for Kindred was followed by a series of nerfs, quickly quenching any interest in the champion that had been gained by the publicity. Not to mention that rare times this "high skill ceiling" champion was played in the LCS post rework Kindred under-preformed. So the skill floor is high for kindred and the "high skill" reward ceiling is demonstrably low. This is more of a rant at this point, but that's mostly because I can tell that this post, as many before it, and undoubtedly many after, are going to get ignored by the people who matter in making this happen. I get that Kindred isn't a profitable champion to work with. I'm actually surprised that Kindred merch was even released in the LoL store. Can we at least get a shitty chroma set? The above pictures don't even cover chromas. It's not that I need a skin in order to survive, that's not why I'm making this. I'm tired of the same champions getting a skin yearly or even twice a year, or mechanical tweaking non-stop, and a champion that was supposed to be something special was given rework and nerfed back to obscurity for the majority of League's playerbase and here we are today.
Anyway, thanks for your support guys and girls, as it is with posts on these boards, there's about a 48-72 hour window of relevancy before it's taken off the front page and views plummet, then the entire thread gets buried. I might try this again next year. What do you think this year's Annie skin is going to be?
