Kindred is a dissapointment

Yodabolt21 · July 26

This is comical. This champ was released less than 12 hours ago and people are already up in arms for no reason. We can list literally dozens of champs that were "awful" the first week of their release and then the complaints stopped.

Call me crazy, but I would be very happy to get Kindred and throw him in my bgs deck everytime. For BGs, give me an all out defender every day over an attacker.

Most of the damage champs etc... are replaceable by numerous options. Great defenders are not. There are really only, IMO anyway, 5 true top defensive champs that force a specific counter. Most of the great attackers can take anyone out minus the obvious mismatches.

Vegeta9001 · July 26

Pikolu said:

psp742 said:
The scary thing is once Kindred is 10% or lower hp, he will place a 6sec root on your champion.. then place degen with beefy damage melting 100% hp into mush... think about a mystic Korg with degen instead of thorn damage.. he will be scary with full MD.. sad he needs awaken and high sig..
5% health he gets the root, also those degens do heal him up pretty quickly too. He also can't die with the root active so you have to hold a special for when you root him.

NGL I just kept swinging at him with herc in the first eq fight asking him why he wouldn't die. Eventually got to a sp2.

NastyPhish · July 27

Yodabolt21 said:
This is comical. This champ was released less than 12 hours ago and people are already up in arms for no reason. We can list literally dozens of champs that were "awful" the first week of their release and then the complaints stopped.

Call me crazy, but I would be very happy to get Kindred and throw him in my bgs deck everytime. For BGs, give me an all out defender every day over an attacker.

Most of the damage champs etc... are replaceable by numerous options. Great defenders are not. There are really only, IMO anyway, 5 true top defensive champs that force a specific counter. Most of the great attackers can take anyone out minus the obvious mismatches.

Just out of curiosity, and to know what skill level this advice is coming from, what was your placement in GC this season?

I agree that most of the best attackers can handle a lot of fights. But also it’s pretty easy to wring out their good attackers and leave them a less than ideal matchup in round 3. And in that situation there are way more than 5 defenders.

Mr.0-8-4 · July 27

Darkraw346 said:
He's weak.

Hell, if this person doesn't want him, I'll take him. 7 star and awakened please lol

Mr.0-8-4 · July 27

psp742 said:
The scary thing is once Kindred is 10% or lower hp, he will place a 6sec root on your champion.. then place degen with beefy damage melting 100% hp into mush... think about a mystic Korg with degen instead of thorn damage.. he will be scary with full MD.. sad he needs awaken and high sig..

Kindred, meet my R4 6 star (Sig 200) Mr. Negative.
Throw all the degen you want, it'll only make me stronger.

Darkraw346 · July 27

Mr.0-8-4 said:

Darkraw346 said:
He's weak.
Hell, if this person doesn't want him, I'll take him. 7 star and awakened please lol

Did I say that? I want him so bad

Darkraw346 · July 27

Mr.0-8-4 said:

psp742 said:
The scary thing is once Kindred is 10% or lower hp, he will place a 6sec root on your champion.. then place degen with beefy damage melting 100% hp into mush... think about a mystic Korg with degen instead of thorn damage.. he will be scary with full MD.. sad he needs awaken and high sig..
Kindred, meet my R4 6 star (Sig 200) Mr. Negative.
Throw all the degen you want, it'll only make me stronger.

Bro said

Yodabolt21 · August 1

NastyPhish said:

Yodabolt21 said:
This is comical. This champ was released less than 12 hours ago and people are already up in arms for no reason. We can list literally dozens of champs that were "awful" the first week of their release and then the complaints stopped.

Call me crazy, but I would be very happy to get Kindred and throw him in my bgs deck everytime. For BGs, give me an all out defender every day over an attacker.

Most of the damage champs etc... are replaceable by numerous options. Great defenders are not. There are really only, IMO anyway, 5 true top defensive champs that force a specific counter. Most of the great attackers can take anyone out minus the obvious mismatches.
Just out of curiosity, and to know what skill level this advice is coming from, what was your placement in GC this season?

I agree that most of the best attackers can handle a lot of fights. But also it’s pretty easy to wring out their good attackers and leave them a less than ideal matchup in round 3. And in that situation there are way more than 5 defenders.

I placed Quantum 1, missed Mysterium 3 by 4 points.

The draft is obviously the most important part, but if you don't have the true great defenders in your deck you don't stand a chance in most matchups. If I place Korg, Attuma or Sassy (less so), a specific counter is required to beat them. I can beat your Doom or Rintrah with plenty of champs and most likely faster as well.

Avengers220 · September 17

I got him from my 1st 7* titan crystal. I'm happy but I think he needs duped.

Shadowstrike · September 17

Ruwqiersa said:

SpideyFunko said:
“apoc is a dud”
“doom sucks”

wait until you can get your hands on him and try for yourself

also don’t you have a rank 5 psycho man, who is considered to be one of the weakest tech champions? You should know it’s not beneficial to judge a book by it’s cover
Why you dont also give examples of correct early reviews that the community made? "We were wrong about apoc, torch, doom" so we shouldnt say anything isnt really valid. We also predicted which champions will be good and which wont so many times. At the least doesnt mean this kind of discussions cant happen

I believe the point that was being made is that the arguments countering the initial dissatisfaction went away MONTHS after a champ's release and that's not including the rebalance data that should be coming in November. So, I would say final verdict is still being determined until possibly February if he does get a tune up.

Kindred is a dissapointment

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