Ahri vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Ahri
based on 2,079 Ahri vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Kindred
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Ahri vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Ahri in LoL
The stats shown here show several significant Ahri against Kindred counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kindred..
Ahri typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Kindred. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Kindred
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Who is Better, Ahri or Kindred?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when facing off against Kindred, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes a bad counter to Kindred.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Kindred, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Kindred.
Moreover, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Kindred matchups, Kindred is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Kindred. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to counter Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often gets much more CS compared to Kindred. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Ahri versus Kindred build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Kindred than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when playing against Kindred with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Kindred as Ahri, Ahri players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ahri vs Kindred clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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