Side quest kindred counters

IlociaM97

Hey guys does anyone fighted the kindred boss on the side quest? You can't place much debuffs on him and he has inverted controls for the full fight, any good counters?

IlociaM97

Tried my 7* moondragon and it didn't go very well

N8buckeye08

Yeah… this is not a fun fight. Want to ascend a champ but waiting for someone to provide a tip lol

IlociaM97

N8buckeye08 said:

Yeah… this is not a fun fight. Want to ascend a champ but waiting for someone to provide a tip lol

You can restar the quest as Manny times as you want if you wanna try out some luck

peixemacaco

Tried with Moondragon 7stars too and defeated him on Lvl3 to get Dust lvl 1.

Now I will go to Lvl5 to get Dust lvl 2

Some says Dragon Man and Ebony Maw are great counters

IlociaM97

I've keeps on melting me

N8buckeye08

Seriously… is this practice for the Spring of Sorrow?!?

I desperately hope they nerf this fight once people divert their attention from 8.4 and the outrage starts to build

dee_jay5

Not a fun fight at all. I wasted a few revives just to get that Kindred down. I'll probably skip on completing the side quest this month and concentrate on Act 8 instead.

N8buckeye08

Just trying to get the t2 dust and even threat level 4 is a nightmare. I refuse to use revives on this. This is Act 6 level design

Cat_Murdock

Luke Cage does great! You gotta play into Delirium but it’s not too bad. Redoubled Determination keeps Kindred using their sp2 which is easier to punish and they don’t have their SP3 active so there’s no danger from that. Build to sp2 and use it while you have 5 Exhaustions active to inflict a 150% Concussion. This will shut down most things and even prevent their annoying near death root. Rinse repeat

IlociaM97

Cat_Murdock said:

Luke Cage does great! You gotta play into Delirium but it’s not too bad. Redoubled Determination keeps Kindred using their sp2 which is easier to punish and they don’t have their SP3 active so there’s no danger from that. Build to sp2 and use it while you have 5 Exhaustions active to inflict a 150% Concussion. This will shut down most things and even prevent their annoying near death root. Rinse repeat

Thanks a lot cat I'm gonna try it, I was getting close whit torch but couldn't finish the fight

Cap_Murica

Managed to get 4 solos with my R3 OG Hulk.

BloodyRose

Rich the Man has a walkthrough with some recs in his video at https://youtu.be/_sKcMV8p2og?si=nrUORuxnoKFG_32t&t=683. He uses OG Hulk, but also recs Torch, Spider-Ham, Suggs, Immortal Hulk, Warlock and some others. I'm going to give it a go later today.

It's weird tho, he didn't add the info to his spreadsheet yet.

Kiritsugucarl

That kindred sucks, my 6r2 og hulk can only reach 60%, i refuse to use revives, and getting used to delirium is kinda hard for me right now. Skill issue for me i guess?

laserjohn26

Photon cooks him. Debuffs help as his sp2 is easier to punish to avoid delirium

Krishna

Who ever designed this fight with Kindered, I don't know what they are thinking. Difficulty of the fight must be proportional to the rewards given. This fight feels more like an endgame boss fight rather than a monthly side quest fight. This is just out of control and made me very sad for playing it.

DrZola

Just starting to look at it. Anyone try Jessica Jones?

Dr. Zola

TheZebraKing

After unsuccessfully trying about half of my roster, I finally resorted to the slightly agricultural approach of parry/heavying him with Kingpin while throwing the occasional Sp1 and that worked!

Chadhogan

Kindred is not bad I used nimrod no reverse controls bait the sp1 and stay away when the charges are up

WeaponX4X

Juggernaut.. granted mine is 7* r3 awakened (not a brag just stating).
I tried 6* ascended r4 HT first and it took 3 revives, I wasn’t happy. Got an easy solo with Juggs tho - I would say maxed 5* would do it fairly easy.

Colinwhitworth69

TheZebraKing said:

After unsuccessfully trying about half of my roster, I finally resorted to the slightly agricultural approach of parry/heavying him with Kingpin while throwing the occasional Sp1 and that worked!

I have no clue what you mean by "agricultural approach" but it sounds fun.

Nightheart

I died to Kindred that degen is so stupid lol

dannyrotten

I’ve had good luck with spider ham. Just need to get used to reverse controls.
Good news is you can restart without penalty if you screw up. Good luck

RichTheMan

@BloodyRose yes i did its in the same tab you just need scroll to the right and its there always had been

Magrailothos

DrZola said:

Just starting to look at it. Anyone try Jessica Jones?

Dr. Zola

She's very, very bad for it.

Jessica inflicts debuffs every time the opponent throws a special, which combines badly with the Redoubled Determination node. At 10 Investigation, she's actually giving Kindred +650% Attack any time he throws a Special...🥺

Magrailothos

Okay, this fight utterly, utterly sucks.

Throwing both Root and Reversed Controls on a piece of pure nastiness like Kindred?

There's not a tiny margin for error, against one of the nastiest ultra-defenders Kabam has introduced in the last year.

All this for a few shards, and a 6* Awakening Gem to add to my collection?

I think I might just run through Threat Level 1 for the Mysterium, and call it a day.

For anyone who wants a suggestion, I've got him down to 5% a couple of times with Ultron (6r4Asc), who I think is probably the best possible option for the fight; as he inflicts some but not too many bleeds, and can keep pushing Kindred to SP2.

But seriously, I finished 100%ing 8.3.6 last night, and took Cerastes down twice in the same amount of time that tonight, I've failed to beat Kindred even once on Threat level 5.

This is ridiculous.

Camwulf

Juggs works well. Just bash away

Kingnaes

For me it was Human Torch twice and i switched over to Spiderham to test it out for the other 2 paths... ... all 4 solos but I preferred HT better

Asgairdnarnia

Jugg can do it easy

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DNA3000

Colinwhitworth69 said:

TheZebraKing said:

After unsuccessfully trying about half of my roster, I finally resorted to the slightly agricultural approach of parry/heavying him with Kingpin while throwing the occasional Sp1 and that worked!

I have no clue what you mean by "agricultural approach" but it sounds fun.

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