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Kindred

Marksman
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DifficultyAverage
Power SpikeLate-Game
Mark of the Kindred abilityp
Dance of Arrows abilityq
Wolf's Frenzy abilityw
Mounting Dread abilitye
Lamb's Respite abilityr
StatsBuildCounters
Runes
Synergies
jungle

Kindred Build

based on 63,059 matches
Win Rate
50 %
Pick Rate
5.3 %
Ban Rate
13.2 %

How We Come Up with Our Kindred Builds

We process over 1 Million League of Legends games every day to bring you the most accurate Kindred build so you can destroy your enemies and improve you win rate. We've broken down our Kindred builds by rank, position, and enemy team type, so you can find the most accurate set of Kindred core items and runes for any situation.

Kindred Build Summary

Kindred is a an average jungle champ in League of Legends. Their best rune sets are Precision Inspiration. Adding the highlighted runes shown below into your Kindred build will provide you the additional stats to help them play well through the laning phase of the game and into the late game. You should start by leveling up their q ability first.

Best vsAll Build for Kindred

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Scorchclaw PupMosstomper Seedling

Early Items

~5 Mins
Cloak of AgilityNoonquiver

Core Kindred Items

~22 Mins
Trinity ForceSterak's GageKraken SlayerPlated Steelcaps

Optional Items

Guardian AngelTitanic HydraBloodthirsterRunaan's Hurricane

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Kindred to level upq
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Second ability for Kindred to level upw
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Last skill for Kindred to max oute

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
InspirationMagical FootwearCosmic Insight
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceMagic Resist
Kindred's passive ability p
Kindred's q ability q
Kindred's w ability w
Kindred's e ability e
Kindred's ultimate ability r
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W
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Q
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E
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Q
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Q
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R
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Q
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W
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W
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W
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E
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E
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R

Kindred Matchups Overview

Kindred is Weak Against

IvernIvern44.3% winrateShyvanaShyvana46% winrateFiddlesticksFiddlesticks46% winrateXin ZhaoXin Zhao46% winrate

Kindred is Strong Against

SylasSylas56.6% winrateLee SinLee Sin54.3% winrateRek'SaiRek'Sai54.2% winrateNaafiriNaafiri54.1% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

Kledtop+ 54% 676 GamesRumblemiddle+ 54.2% 260 GamesZyrasupport+ 54.4% 2640 GamesKarthusbottom+ 56.4% 532 Games

More Gameplay Tips for Kindred Players

Tips and Tricks

Dance of Arrows allows Kindred to jump over walls.

Use Wolf's Frenzy in the middle of a teamfight because Kindred's wolf will attack enemies within the AOE for 8.5 seconds.

Additional Kindred Build Insights

LoL Kindred players will likely find them to be a challenging character to build out properly. You'll see that their build changes when they is playing against either generic or homogenous team compositions, indicating you shouldn't take the same Kindred build every single game of League of Legends

The most essential items to incorporate into your champ's build are: Trinity Force, Sterak's Gage, and Kraken Slayer. Players who included these pieces in their gear had a higher win rate than those who went for other builds for Kindred. Similarly, if you are fighting a well-mixed enemy team comp, you should strongly consider getting yourself the Precision, and Inspiration runes. In recent matches, they won the greatest fraction of their rounds when built with these runes.

We set our Kindred build guidance by analyzing 63,059 recently ranked LoL rounds with them in them. We only propose the highest winrate Kindred builds that have been built by ranked LoL players enough times for us to reccomend them. With so many matches in our dataset, we are very confident in our recommended builds.