Overheal If you plan on building more lifesteal, Overheal can be a strong survival tool that can counteract Kindred's natural squishiness. It also works well with healing supports like Soraka and Sona.		Triumph Triumph can help you more easily outplay after fights with multiple people inside Lamb's Respite. The added gold is a nice bonus as well.		Presence of Mind Presence of Mind was changed to add ultimate cooldown in addition to mana. If you rely heavily on your ultimate to outplay or win fights it could be an option, but in team fights it falls behind Triumph.

Legend: Alacrity This is the rune of choice for almost any ADC for good reason. Your kit revolves around your auto attacks, meaning the more you have the better you are.		Legend: Tenacity Tenacity is more relevant for tanks who are easily hit by a lot of CC and need to walk it off. If you're facing a CC heavy team build a Quicksilver Sash.		Legend: Bloodline If you need lifesteal build it. The added attack speed will be more relevant to both your damage output and your healing.

Coup de Grace The natural choice for an ADC with an execute ability, Coup de Grace also provides extra damage in team-fight situations.		Cut Down Your focus in fights should generally be on the enemy ADC or damage-dealers, so this rune is more counter-intuitive. It's a potentially viable pick, but only against a tank-heavy comp. It can also be a comfort pick for new Kindred players as you may not be familiar with your ultimate timing and usage.		Last Stand Last Stand is potentially a viable alternative to Coup de Grace, although it's only really helpful whilst standing in your ult and shooting outside of it, which is unlikely. A Kindred doesn't tend to stay at low life for long.

Laning Phase

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Arriving in lane post leash, a single Q will kill the front 3 minions and give you increased attack speed.
---> FOR PLAYERS UNFAMILIAR WITH KINDRED: Use this and every opportunity to shove your lane hard into tower, as you and your support will be well enough equipped to deal with ganks easily, and will force your enemy ADC to miss out on early CS. As Kindred has a somewhat weak early game, you need to establish your lead early as well, just be careful to keep up vision and remember who the enemy jungler/midlaners are.
---> FOR PLAYERS EXPERIENCED WITH KINDRED AND ADC: Allow the enemy to push into you and freeze the wave; Kindred has strong chasing potential and unexpected damage, and if you're confident enough you can turn almost every encounter in your favor easily just by waiting on enemy cooldowns and playing aggressively.

Your most used ability while laning is your Q, as you can use it for poke, dodge, engage, disengage and regular CSing. Be aware that Kindred can drop low on mana extremely quickly. Use your E when either the support or ADC moves past a minion wave and immediately engage with Q. The increased attack speed will help activate the Dread proc, bringing them low extremely quickly. Place a Wolf's Frenzy for the reduced cooldown on Q if you need to either catch up to them for a kill or for a disengage if you've taken too much damage. There is no pressing need to stay in the circle, just stay alive.

Always keep the river warded, and in the case of a gank, Q towards tower, W, Q, then Q a third time and you're out. If your support is in danger of being caught out, use E to slow and try and put some shots into them to scare them off. If it's a choice of you or your support dying, though, let them die-it's their job.

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Whenever you get the chance, such as when you've killed one or both of your enemies, or they've just backed, check for marks on Gromp, Scuttle or their bottom buff. If there is one, ask your support to follow you and take the mark. It is generally dangerous to go alone, but the two of you could potentially get another kill if you catch the jungler unaware. You can also go alone if you know where the enemy jungler is and you have enough aggressive vision.

When damaging towers with no enemies nearby, make sure to Q once to get the increased attack speed to bring the tower down faster.


Mid-to-late Game

As a natural jungler with high mobility, you want to catch people in the jungle as much as possible. This requires well-placed wards and a responsive team. It also gets easier as you become more familiar with which walls you can dash over when trying to catch up to or escape from someone. In team fights coming in from the side or front both work. Kindred deals a large amount of burst damage, so it is easy to pull off assassinations whilst your opponent's attention is elsewhere, but coming from the front works just as well. Your mobility lets you easily keep up to put damage into their team, and being in the front also provides for better ult placement to keep both you and your teammates alive.

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Kindred also has a really solid waveclear, and combining that with her mobility makes split-pushing extremely easy to do as well. Keep tabs on your team and your objectives, and take a wave or two in each lane as often as possible. During team fights you'll have minions pushing down towers while your enemy is busy. When a wave is pushed to tower, make your way down, Q and bring it down as quickly as possible. Don't forget to place a ward or two in the nearby jungle for safety.

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Don't forget to clear marks in your enemy jungle during this late game phase. Normally when you play jungle your enemy expects you to regularly go for marks, but since an ADC Kindred doesn't, they don't check marks regularly. This makes for easy collection. On average I end my games with around 10-13 marks.

Kindred is a wonderful ADC, with a lot of growth potential the more you practice with her. She works well against tanks, assassins, heavy CC, basically any comp. She has slows, sustain, burst and sustained DPS, and most importantly she is the most "flavorful" champion I have ever played.

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Just fall in love with their story and you'll see what I mean.


Thanks everyone for reading, feel free to leave a comment and ask any questions you might have as I tend to reply within a day or two. Have a great time with the build, and I'll see you on the Rift!