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Runes: Joating

1 2

Precision

Press the Attack

Triumph

Legend: Haste

Cut Down

Inspiration

Magical Footwear

Jack of all Trades

Spells:

Spells™

Flash

Smite

Items

Choose your pokemon!

Boots

JOAT-ing

10 (9 + boots) stacks JOAT

Standard build (Late game)

Bruiser

Standard Bruiser

Situational Items

Ability Order Q -> W -> E

Kindred Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Darius

Extreme

Not a jungler but sadly very popular as of late.

Don't fight him up close and kite him as much as possible, as he'll quickly stack his passive and 1-shot you with ult. Beware that he can pull you to him or worse, out of Lamb's Respite with his Apprehend

Galio

Ideal

Pretty much all his abilities work great with Lamb's Respite

His Hero's Entrance the most obviously due to huge AOE knockup

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Galio

Ideal

Pretty much all his abilities work great with [[Lamb's respite]] His [[Hero's Entrance]] the most obviously due to huge AOE knockup

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Champion Build Guide

Greetings

I'm back with another guide, this time for my 2nd most played champion: Kindred
This is Jack of all Trades focused guide, even though the build is pretty much your standard crit Kindred.
Be sure to let me know if I made any errors & feel free to ask any questions you have and I'll do my best to answer them!

Pros & Cons

Pros

+ Very unique playstyle due to passive and also being one of the only two ADC champions in the Jungle

+ Can easily snowball if fed

+ makes you a lot stronger thanks to buffing abilities and the bonus

+ Rewarding if properly mastered

+ Can significantly impact teamfight or objectives outcome with

+ Can technically scale infinitely except for the

+ High skill ceiling

Cons

- Weaker in early game than most junglers due to being an ADC and reliant (at least 4 for powerspike)

- Lowest base (500) from all ADC's

- Can easily get 1-shot by assassins
( ) and stronger junglers such as and especially in early game

- High skill floor required

- Can easily fall into the dying for a mark syndrome if you don't know when to go for them.

- Requires jungle and kiting knowledge to be good

Runes

PRECISION

is the best rune for (unless you plan on going bruiser) as you can easily auto attack someone 3 times especially thanks to resetting auto attack cooldown, so be sure to abuse it

will 9/10 be way better than if you are going for tankier build (i.e and ) as it provides you healing and free AD during fights.

You should really only build bruiser if you are getting annihilated by assassins or to get used to kindred as it'll make it easier for you to survive fights in exchange for lowering your damage a lot since you aren't building 4 crit items (as you would withPTA)

Is the only good rune in this category for kindred. It grants you more gold for takedowns and restores 2.5% max health + 5% missing health.

Both and are great choices, however I personally think that is better as it gives you 15 for your basic abilities (Q, W and E), which given you don't really build it on is more helpful than just 18% more on top of items like and .

Another choice where every rune is a good choice. and are two sides of the same coin, one helps you with low health enemies, the other helps you with full health enemies. I prefer due to it being more useful in early game since you usually don't have enough damage yet to get enemies to <40% health threshold reliably.

is more useful in bruiser kindred build but can also be used with crit build the same way the other two are. It's simply more risky due to lack of bonus health.

INSPIRATION

grants you boots that have +10 movespeed at 12:00 (-45 seconds per takedown) but prevents you from buying them yourself beforehand. You will also not obtain them if your inventory is full so be sure to keep a free slot for them.

is a funny sub-rune that does nothing more but grant you free per stack and 6 or 15
at 5 or 10 stacks respectively which may not seem like a lot but given that you are an ADC and your main damage is auto attacks that 16 AD is basically 16 more damage you can deal per attack.

In the 1st one you should always pick 10% due to being auto attacker.

In the 2nd you should pick because it's simply more AD so more damage.

In the 3rd you can pick either or , however keep in mind that grants you 65 more health at level 1 which let's you survive invades for longer even if it's just a single auto attack.

Abilities

PASSIVE ABILITY

Mark of The Kindred

Both Lamb and Wolf mark targets to hunt. Scoring a takedown against a hunted target collects a stack of .

How impacts your abilities:

Lamb gains 75 on 4th mark and 25 every 3rd mark after the first 4 (up to a total of 250 bonus at 25 marks) bonus range affects her basic attacks and Wolf's .

grants an additional 5% per .

gains 1% current health damage per .

gains 0,5% missing health damage per , and 0,75% per if it hits an enemy within the threshold. (<25% if you have 0% , all the way up to <75% if you have 100% )

Lamb can choose enemy champion to hunt if she has not been in combat with any of them in the last 6 seconds. Once selected, the mark is applied after an 8 second delay, after which it can be collected by Kindred.

Lamb gains the ability to select a new target every 75 seconds. Targets successfully hunted cannot be marked again for 4 minutes.

Starting at 3:15, Wolf periodically marks a random large monster within the enemy team's jungle for 180 seconds. The hunted camp is highlighted on the mini map to both teams. Once the hunted target is slain or the mark expires, Wolf will wait 45 seconds before selecting a new target.
The type of monster that Wolf can mark changes based on Kindred's current stacks:

0:

1 – 3:

4 – 7:

8+:

IMPORTANT TIP

DON'T focus on just getting , especially in early game, focus on doing your jungle to build ASAP as it'll greatly improve your dueling potential.
IF you see an opportunity (i.e The enemy champion you have marked is overextending / You see low health enemy that you could easily mark and kill / Enemy jungler is dead and you can safely take from his ) then go for it.

Dance of Arrows

Lamb dashes toward the target location, gaining 35% (+ 5% per ) bonus for 4 seconds and firing an arrow at up to 3 nearby visible enemies that deals physical damage. Her current attack target within any proximity will be prioritized by one of the arrows.

total cooldown is reduced to 4-2 seconds (based on it's level) while Lamb is within the area of .

reduces current cooldown to the same amount.

!!IMPORTANT TIP & EXAMPLE BELOW!!

Be sure to use before and use it whenever possible during . If you do it correctly you will be able to use 3 times total and then have it at 4 second cooldown instead of 9(use it once your current runs out, it will refresh attack speed buff thanks to which you'll have it for longer if used this way.

Keep in mind this example video is for when your is at lvl 1-3 as at the 2.5s cooldown you can use it 4 times total before ends, and 5 times at 2s.

Wolf's Frenzy

Passive: As move and attack, they build up to 100 stacks of Hunter's Vigor.

Hunter's Vigor: At maximum stacks, Lamb's next basic attack heals her for 0% – 100%
(based on 's missing health) of 47 – 81 (based on level). The heal is not triggered if is at full health.

Active: Wolf dashes to the target location, then claims the surrounding area as his territory for the next 8.5 seconds, separating from Lamb.

He automatically attacks the closest nearby visible enemy within the area, prioritizing the last enemy Lamb has attacked, then enemy champions, then non-champions.

Wolf's attacks deal magic damage and the speed at which he attacks scales with 25% of 's bonus . Against monsters, his attacks deal 150% damage and slow the target by 50% for 2 seconds.

ends immediately if Lamb leaves the area or dies.

Mounting Dread

Lamb fires a shot at the target enemy that slows them by 30% (+ 5% per 100 AP) for 1 second and marks them for 4 seconds. Her basic attacks against the marked target each apply a stack, refreshing the duration and stacking up to 3 times.

The third stack directs Wolf to pounce on the target, consuming all stacks to deal additional physical damage, capped at 300 against monsters.

The missing health portion of the additional damage will critically strike for (150% + 40%) damage if the target is below 25% – 75% (based on ) of their maximum health and cannot critically strike otherwise. The base damage of the pounce can independently critically strike for (175% + 40%) damage.

You can set it up during your and hold it on 2 stacks on low health enemy till your ult finishes, after that you can easily kill them with one more auto attack.

Lamb's Respite

Lamb blesses the ground underneath herself and enters a 0.264 seconds cast time, creating a sacred zone at her location at the time of cast that lasts for 4 seconds.

All units inside the zone gain a minimum health threshold equal to 10% of their maximum health, and will also become invulnerable while remaining in the area when they reach or are at the threshold, during which they also cannot be healed, but can still regenerate health.

All targetable units within the zone are healed when the blessing ends.

If there are hextech gates due to the You can use them while on the health threshold since you cannot be dealt any damage in that state.

Items

JOAT CORE:

Trinity Force

Magical Footwear

The Collector

Infinity Edge

Last Whisper

Vampiric Scepter

Trinity Force - Great first item for Kindred, it provides Attack Speed, Ability Haste and Sheen which gives you free daamge whenever you use ability.

Magical Footwear - Free boots with 10 extra movespeed that you can get at 12 minutes in worst case scenario but usually sooner than that.

The Collector - Gives you lethality and crit which are both useful for you, not to mention the passive that let's you execute anyone that reaches less than 5% health.

Infinity Edge - Increases your critical strike damage by 40% which affects both your auto attacks
and Mounting Dread and also counts as a stack for Jack of all Trades.

Last Whisper - Grants you % armor penetration and another stack for Jack of all Trades.

Vampiric Scepter - Gives you your 10th stack for Jack of all Trades (if you went for Berserker's Greaves on top of finally giving you some sustain besides your jungle item and Triumph.

STANDARD FULL BUILD:

Trinity Force

The Collector

Infinity Edge

Mortal Reminder

Bloodthirster

Runaan's Hurricane

Mortal Reminder - Better Lord Dominik's Regards, the 5% less armor penetration does not make it worse especially when there's always at least one champion that builds some sort of healing or has healing runes in game.

Bloodthirster - A lot of AD and 15% life steal that will easily turn into 100+ healing per attack with full build. You also gain overheal shield when your health is full.

Runaan's Hurricane - You should get this as a boots replacement.
Great item that keeps your Jack of all Trades stacks at 10 (due to giving you % Movement Speed) and also letting you hit 3 people at once which makes it great for teamfights. It also brings your crit chance up to 100% and Mounting Dread threshold to <75% HP.

BOOTS:

Berserker's Greaves

Plated Steelcaps

Mercury's Treads

Berserker's Greaves - Your go-to boots thanks to the bonus Attack Speed if you don't need to go very defensive. (which as an ADC you really shouldn't until later items as you should prioritize getting your main powerspikes ASAP)

Plated Steelcaps - Boots you take when the enemy team has a lot of auto attackers ( Yasuo, Vayne etc.) and/or AD champions.

Mercury's Treads - Boots that grant you Tenacity for when the enemy team has a lot of Crowd Control and/or AP champions. (Especially since CC usually deals magic damage if it deals any to begin with)

BRUISER ITEMS:

Black cleaver

Sterak's gage

Blade of The Ruined King

Chempunk Chainsword

Jak'sho, The Protean

Black Cleaver - Core item for when you're going bruiser. It gives you armor penetration and bonus movespeed whenever you deal physical damage, making it easier for you to chase someone down.

Sterak's Gage - Gives you tenacity which can come in handy if the enemy team has a lot of Crowd Control, a shield when you reach low health (<30% HP) and also free AD that scales with your level (Currently 54 AD at max lvl).

Blade of the Ruined King - Great anti-tank item due to dealing % current health damage and slowing the enemy every 3rd attack. It also grants you life steal and Attack Speed which are both great for you.

Chempunk Chainsword If you need anti-healing this is something you'll have to buy due to locking yourself out of Mortal Reminder due to buying Black Cleaver (You can only have one armor penetration item.

Jak'Sho, The Protean - This is your best option for defense as it'll grant you both armor and magic resist. After 5 seconds of combat it will also increase any bonus armor and magic resist you got by 30% (including ones it grants. Giving you total of 59 armor & magic resist during combat).

ON-HIT ITEMS:

Guinsoo's Rageblade

Runaan's Hurricane

Blade of The Ruined King

Kraken slayer

Terminus

Wit's end

Guinsoo's Rageblade - THE main on-hit item. It applies 30 magic damage on-hit, further increases your Attack Speed for each attack (up to 4) but most importantly, once you reach those 4 stacks it makes every 3rd attack apply on-hit effects twice which in turn makes every item below more effective.

Runaan's Hurricane - Great item that not only increases your Attack Speed (which is what on-hit is all about), but also hit 3 people at once which makes it great for teamfights. It also gives you 25% crit chance which may not seem like a lot especially since you don't build Infinity Edge, however 25% is better than 0% nontheless as critical attacks deal 75% increased damage.

Blade of the Ruined King - Just like with Jack of all Trades build, it's a great anti-tank item due to dealing % current health damage and slowing the enemy every 3rd attack while granting you lifesteal for more sustain.

Kraken Slayer - Deals on-hit physical damage every 3rd attack (120-160 based on level), increased by up to 50% based on enemy's missing health.

Terminus - Your go-to anti-tank item that alternates between light (increases your armor & magic resist by 6-8 depending on level) and dark (increases your armor penetration & magic penetration by 10%) attacks. Each going up to 3 stacks (18-24 (depending on level) armor & magic resist and 30% armor penetration & magic penetration).
(Remember that if enemies have a lot of healing going for Mortal Reminder is not a bad idea as having more crit chance means more damage and higher Mounting Dread threshold.)

Wit's End - Best anti-ap item you can get for on-hit build. It deals 45 on-hit damage with each attack while granting you both magic resist and tenacity which can be very useful against crowd control.
(Keep in mind that if there are no AP champions in enemy team there's no reason to build Wit's End and you would be better off with Infinity Edge for more powerful crits and Mounting Dread damage or Bloodthirster for even more sustain.)

You and Smite

SMITE

This summoner spell is the only reasonyou can buy a jungler item to begin with.

It let's you deal 600 -> 900 -> 1200 (Upon leveling it every 20 stacks) TRUE damage to monsters and objectives like dragon or baron.

Unleashed Smite

This is the first upgrade of smite (20 stacks out of 40)

It now deals 900 instead of 600 true damage AND it now can be used on enemy champions to slow them by 20% which may not seem like a lot but it can easily make a difference in your gank being successful or failed due to letting the enemy run under their turret.

THE SMITES™

RED SMITE: It's your go-to smite, due to the 30% slow (which makes it easier to catch up/run away from enemies) and the 4% true damage burn (which can genuinely help you secure kills even if it may seem unlikely)

GREEN SMITE: My least picked option due to it simply not being a good one for Kindred. The only thing it provides is 300hp shield which is not a great option even into assassins as it's only available when you finish smite item

BLUE SMITE: Great for movespeed but nothing else, upon entering a brush you gain 30% movespeed that decays over 2 seconds upon leaving it, and 45% decaying movespeed upon killing a large monster (Gromp, Buff, etc.)