About me
I'm Odina a Kindredonetrick who has peaked 600lp Grandmaster on the NA server with a 68% winrate and 700lp Challenger on the LAN server with a 76% winrate onetricking kindred for both climbs.

I play a very aggresive playstyle to get a lead early game that so I can snowball and control the map.

Below are images of both my NA and LAN climb.

Pros and Cons

Pros
Potential to solocarry games
Very high damage output
Hard to shutdown when ahead
Mixed Damage
Does not fall off
Unique gank angles
Rewarding to master
Good voice lines


Cons
Mechanically difficult
Requires good jungle tracking at higher ranks
Needs good map awareness
Learning mark prediction is hard
Useless if behind
Requires amazing spacing and positioing

Your early game on kindred will dictate much of how you play the rest of the game, this is where you need to be the most focused. If you are not playing in GM+ you typically want to 3 or 4 camp into either an invade if you know the enemy jungler is pathing the same as you and is very weak early(Think evelynn, karthus, kayn) otherwise you want to look for a gank. Use your q to get around enemy vision and for unique gank angles. Make sure to mark right before you gank and try to hold e if you dont need the slow for maximum damage.

Midgame on kindred can vary wildly depending on your early game, if you are very ahead you want to constantly pressure the entire map looking for heralds ganks and dives as much as you can to extend your gold lead even further.

If you are even or behind you want to just be patient, play for objectives and low risk plays. Do not overforce as you will fall even furthrer behind.

Play for objectives dont overforce and execute teamfights well mechanically all there is to it.

RUNES

The most common rune on kindred is Press the Attack(PTA) and while not awful in soloq conq typically outvalues it massively.

The reason why Conqueror is so much better is simply because of how fast kindred can stack it and that the insane bonus AD it gives opens kindred up to building items that offer utility as well as damage such as Botrk, Wits end or deaths dance. PTA is a rune that scales strictly off your damage and you will win much more games if you are able to itemize not just damage. This isnt even adding the bonus healing conq gives when stacked.

Lethal Tempo is an amazing rune for crit kindred as it allows you to not have to worry about any AS items and just stack more ad for bigger crits.


Items

Mythics

Kraken Slayer- by far the most common mythic and the best. Kindreds synergy with this item due to her high attackspeed as well as the passive is just amazing and it 90% of games.

Galeforce- Sometimes good when you need a gapcloser but its cooldown is just so high I personally dont feel it being good anymore.

Shieldbow- Good when the enemy needs to oneshot you or lose, but new deaths dance replaces it in this function.

Legendary Items

Collector- This item is good in 2 circumstances, you based on 1100gold and are fed. or you based on 1100 gold with a huge teamfight coming. Items strength is in its components, LDR is 5x better finished.

Hurricane- Its fun but dont touch this item if they arent 4 melees or buying tiamat/cleaver.

Titanic hydra- Only good if very fed or playing to scale late you also need marks

Black Cleaver- Amazing item if you have a lot of marks, i build it over LDR if they dont have any huge armor and hp stackers like sej or nasus.

Deaths Dance- Amazing item vs Ad if you dont want BF sword or stopwatch

Guardian Angel- Strength is in the bf sword and stopwatch passive is usually useless UNLESS SUPER FED

Randuins/Frozenheart

if you have the marks dont be afraid to buy these.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading my guide, I dont have much to say other than dont go pta.