Champion Reveal: Kindred, the Eternal Hunters

[quote=MungoGeri]I wonder how squishy she'll really be built in game. Her attacks are pretty close range, so it seems like she'll have to get in the middle of the fray. I can see her being built kind of bruiserish with maybe two or three defensive items. Also, it seems like taking down towers will be a snap, if she can lay her ult down and let her entire team attack a tower with impunity for 4 seconds.[/quote]

[quote=MungoGeri]I was just thinking that this would be the most annoying team ever to go up against: Top: [[Yorick]] Mid: [[Kayle]] ADC: [[Kindred]] Support: [[Zilean]] Jungle: [[Tryndamere]] All with [[Guardian Angel]] and [[zhonya's hourglass]]. I'm not saying that it would be a *good* team -- just that it would be incredibly annoying.[/quote]

[quote=FalseoGod]The thing is, that's a team without a good early game. The only real "early game" champ in that comp is [[kayle]] (yorick is good as a sololaner, but deals poorly with ganks at early levels). If you go against a comp with a strong early game and relevant CC, you'll never get to team fights or, if you do, they'll destroy you with the cc in between rotations. [[elise]], per example, could single handedly snowball every lane against that team. Also, it requires EXTREME coordination to not stack revival effects by accident, thus wasting ults. I think it's a fun concept, but in practice it's very had to make it work[/quote]

[quote=OTGBionicArm]A better comp with the same idea would be; Top: [[aatrox]] Jungle: Kindred Mid: [[Ekko]] Bot Lane: [[Braum]]/[[Tahm Kench]] and [[Mordekaiser]] While this team lacks hard revives except [[aatrox]], it has a much more workable early game, a good team fight and likely more annoying kill denial. The team you suggested has only the revive thing going for it, and has abysmal CC and frontline capabilities.[/quote]

[quote=Jimmydoggga 2.0]"The most annoying team to ever go up against" THAT TEAM SUCKS ASS LET ME IMPROVE IT FOR YOU.[/quote]

[quote=MungoGeri][quote=FalseoGod]The thing is, that's a team without a good early game. The only real "early game" champ in that comp is [[kayle]] (yorick is good as a sololaner, but deals poorly with ganks at early levels). If you go against a comp with a strong early game and relevant CC, you'll never get to team fights or, if you do, they'll destroy you with the cc in between rotations. [[elise]], per example, could single handedly snowball every lane against that team. Also, it requires EXTREME coordination to not stack revival effects by accident, thus wasting ults. I think it's a fun concept, but in practice it's very had to make it work[/quote] You understand that I was half joking, right? I realize that you'd never play that team for real. But it's fun to contemplate the combinations of revives, invulnerabilities, etc. just for fun. On a more serious note, I can definitely see some genuine duo combinations of [[kindred]] paired with shorter range mages with a lot of AOE whose primary shortcomings are that they have to get in close to the enemy. For example, [[kayle]] could wail away at people for four seconds (probably being cc'd part of the time) and then suddenly ult just as [[kindred]]'s ult fades and finish off the enemy team (and healing himself simultaneously. Or, [[karthus]] could sit in the [[kindred]] zone and damage enemies with his aoe and Q. Then, when the [[kindred]] ult drops, he could use a [[zhonya's hourglass]] to go invulnerable while still doing AOE damage to damage enemies. Then, he could ult and maybe get a penta. It would help to be on voice chat to pull off these kinds of combos, of course.[/quote]

[quote=sirell]I remember one time in inhouses we went against a [[teleport]]/[[revive]] [[karthus]] with a [[zilean]]. Pretty sure they had a [[yorick]] too. About 30-40 minutes in, the fucker has [[zhonya's hourglass]] too.[/quote]

[quote=Toshabi]Can we all just agree that [s]DoTA 2 is better?[/s] this new champ shoulda just been a support?[/quote]

[quote=OTGBionicArm][quote=Toshabi]Can we all just agree that [s]DoTA 2 is better?[/s] this new champ shoulda just been a support?[/quote] If Riot made another support it has to continue the trend of no laning presence but high map presence that ultimately equals a confusing mess of a kit.[/quote]

[quote=Toshabi][quote=OTGBionicArm][quote=Toshabi]Can we all just agree that [s]DoTA 2 is better?[/s] this new champ shoulda just been a support?[/quote] If Riot made another support it has to continue the trend of no laning presence but high map presence that ultimately equals a confusing mess of a kit.[/quote] At the rate they're going, you might as well skip the HORRIBLY STUPID MIDDLE PHASE development of LoL and jump onto the DoTA 2 hypetrain. Because we can see LoL trying hard to be more like DoTA with every new patch and champ they throw out. Sides, DoTA 2 has a lot more cooler shit out right now, champ concept wise and misc junk wise that people have been bitching at Riot for 5 years to add in that they still haven't added in yet (replays, achievements, announcers, ect.) I MEAN, DOTA 2 HAS A MOTHER FUCKING RICK AND MORTY ANNOUNCER! [youtube]Om9eTFERicM[/youtube] When I graduate from animators school and have evenings back, I'm full timing DoTA JUST because of that announcer pack. That and I miss playing slark.[/quote]