It’s Kindred’s turn in the Champion Guide. In our League of Legends Champion Guide series, we will introduce you to the most important mechanics of all League of Legends Champions. We’ll show you gameplay, runes, items and generally everything there is to know about these champions. Today, let’s move on to the creepy Lamb of the Rift. Kindred looks like a champion turned nightmare. But with this champion guide only your gameplay will be dreamlike.
Of course, we are not biased, besides Kindred, we have also written other champion guides. For example Yone, or Akali or Jinx or Annie… Take a look at the list yourself, you’ll find what you need. And you know where they come from, there are many many more.
Kindred is a strange champion. So writing a champion guide for Kindred feels a lot like smooching your grandma when you greet her: Kind of logical, but also kind of weird. And yes, I know Kindred is theoretically plural, wolf and lamb together make a unit. But not in this guide. We’ll come back to that later.
A champion in the guide: What can Kindred do?
Kindred is an ADC that travels in the Jungle. That means her strengths are clearly in the lategame. The longer the game goes, the stronger you become. In principle, this is true for most ADCs. But for Kindred especially! For scaling, she absolutely needs the passive and therefore as many Marks as possible. But who is actually a mark?
How to keep track of mark timers with Kindred
To master mechanics with Kindred, you need to be able to read Marks. Like the communists did back in the day. Okay, enough Mark jokes, are expensive enough. Cost three Marks…. Kindred, at least, could use those Marks, because no matter how full I stuff this Champion Guide with jokes, you’ll have to get the stacks of passives yourself. And the best way to do that is to know when they appear. For that, here’s a list that tells which camps get a mark, depending on how many you already have:
- 0 Marks: Void crawlers
- 1-3 Marks: Void crawlers, Raptors, Gromp
- 4-7 Marks: Krugs, Blue Buff, Red Buff, Wolves
- 8+ Marks: Baron, Drakes, Elderdrakes
With this knowledge and an eye always on the minimap, you can estimate relatively easily at which camps the mark will appear next. But that’s not usually the end of it. A Kindred Mechanic that most people don’t know about: when you register with EarlyGame, you automatically start with an extra stack from the beginning.
More Mechanics around Kindred’s Passive
So you have now read out the mark timers from this champion guide. Congratulations. But what other mechanics does Kindred’s Passive have in store? Well, first of all, you can use it to see where your opponent’s jungler is at the moment. How? Well, if the mark on the minimap suddenly disappears, then the opponent has taken the camp exactly 15 seconds before. So you can roughly estimate the radius where he is.
- Look, an ADC Pro. And Kindred is an ADC. Fits perfectly: LoL Player of the Month: RNG GALA
It makes sense now, since Kindred is a Jungle Champion, if the mark just disappears on the top site, to pick the botsite and put a gank there. Simple mechanic, ridiculously effective. You just have to look at the minimap a lot and practice your timing a bit.
One more mechanic I have for your flawless Kindred gameplay: A new Mark of Passives appears on a camp 45 seconds after the last camp was eliminated. Combine that with the camp timers from above and suddenly Kindred gameplay isn’t so difficult anymore.
Using Kindred’s Ultimate correctly
You know the meme, even the Kindred Champion Guide can’t save you from it: You are about to win a teamfight, Kindred ults, due to the Ult all opponents simply survive. Yes, the pros, we know them. You can also use Kindred’s ult in a really functional way. For example, to save your own life. Or, and now it’s getting criminal, to save the life of the Baron or the Drake. They don’t die either. That is, your Ultimate is always an almost certain smite duel with the enemy jungler, if that’s what you want. Now get out there and practice smiting! The following Jungle Guide video will help you a lot:
Is Kindred the Lamb?
Kindred is the unity of lamb and wolf. I know, in the gameplay the emphasis looks a bit different. There rather the lamb runs through the gap and the wolf follows, but what are already conservative role distributions in video games I ask you? In addition to very good champion guides like this one, we also publish many lore articles every week, and at some point it will also be Kindred’s turn. Then we’ll explain the interaction a bit more in detail. Kindred is not the lamb and not the wolf alone though, I can say that much!
Hopefully, you’ve got the Kindred mechanics down now after reading this Kindred Champion Guide carefully. If you want to improve your gameplay even more, I recommend the following exquisite guides from the EarlyGame cosmos (and from me, of course):
- Sometimes We Thirst for Blood: A Goredrinker Guide
- Hello, what are team comps and how do you play them?
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