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Yamikaze & Forest Within's Challenger Kindred Guide

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(1) |

lol, u said we always should buy the machete first but in the first part of the guide in starting items there is hunter's talisman and the core is totally different... which one is updated

why celerity? they have no move speed bonuses, its not an increase in movespeed but an increase to bonuses

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Hey, love your guide. But, I think it needs an update because in the build you have Last Stand and Absolute Focus but in your description and screenshot you still have Coup of Grace and Celerity (I know it's old, just saying to not have people confused on the build).

Forest Within has been running a conquerer, black cleaver, and bloodrazer build, what would your opinion on that be?

(43) |

yup im updating it rn. will be out soon :)

Stormrazor first even after the changes to it? That seems really odd. Why do you buy it first despite the fact it’s there to enhance Energized procs now?

(43) |

yeah havent updated yet. waiting to see if theres a better build

Ah right! Thanks. Was wondering if it was just some 200iq thing I couldn't see at a glance. Keep up the good work!

(2) |

Thank you so much for making this guide, it helped me a lot learning my current favorite jungler (it's kindred btw) and also it helped me get better at jungle pathing in general so umm... Thanks!

So the guide is contradictory now, it needs to decide : Stormrazor or Infinity Edge and why ?

(3) |

I love Kindred Thank you so much for this amazing guide !

What jungle clear do you does Celery go now? The guide is still on the R.I.P buff camp buff you will be missed. But I'm guessing either red-krugs-scuttle or red-wolves-blue-check scuttle-gromp or gank? Thanks in advance for the help!

(43) |

oo need to update that. Yeah red krugs scuttle is rly good atm.

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The only downside of this route is that you might accidentally become a Shaco main.

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Oh please dear god no, not a shaco main ;-;

Thanks for the amazing guide, basically got me into maining Kindred.

sooo uhm is this going to be updated ?
cuz Sir Celery isnt even using hail of blades :p

pta is the way to go °-° also from time to time fleet footwork...

(43) |

yea time to update

i dont mean to be rude or anything °-° but if thise guide is there to copie celery the runes are wrong again :D

It's so funny to play with kindred . It's a strong champion with such a long range and with your advices for the build , kindred will be unbeatable . thank u !!

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Love the guide, what are your thoughts on taking dark harvest and is Deaths dance a viable item on kindred
also what are you thoughts on bloodrazor, i've found it makes jungle clear and taking dragon far easier and quicker but seems to fall off pretty hard in dueling compared to warrior
p.s I'm pretty sure wolf marks scuttler at 2:20 instead of 2:30

(43) |

Hi, glad you like the guide.

Yeah, you're right. The mark timer was reduced by 10 seconds with the new season changes. A lot of work was done on this guide before the start of preseason and neither of us caught the mistake. Thanks!

I've also been experimenting with a dark harvest build (celery personally doesn't like it) that goes warrior --> defensive boots --> ghostblade --> hurricane --> black cleaver --> ga. I think dark harvest is really strong with this build, especially considering how often Kindred can proc it in a teamfight as a ranged carry. However, the main argument for PTA is it will proc on your 3rd auto, causing your E to do 12% bonus damage. I haven't tried dark harvest on the crit build featured on this guide but I bet it's pretty strong as well.

Overall, dark harvest probably allows for really strong teamfights and better scaling while PTA allows for stronger early ganks. The biggest problem I can see with crit build + dark harvest is, since you're weaker early with crit build, you might want PTA to make up for your weaker early game (especially since you don't really need any more lategame damage with crit build anyways).

Bloodrazer isn't terrible on Kindred but you're usually going to want warrior for early jungle skirmishes as the early AD and zerks will offer much more damage than bloodrazer + defensive boots/zerks. Plus, after you have crit, the extra AD will be more useful to burst squishies as you'll melt tanks either way.

Hope this helps :)

sounds like a build to try thanks
any guideline on how many stacks you should have by say 20 or 30min
i worry about lagging behind since i don't have a benchmark to compare my progress to

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I usually don't try to benchmark my marks as they're not that important on Kindred's new kit. However, my understanding is around 20 min you want to have ~6 marks. Less than 5 means you're a bit behind and 7+ means you're ahead.

Are there any other builds you consider viable enough to add into the guide, like is fleet footwork got enough pros to outweigh the substantial dmg of PTA