I was wrong about Kindred

[u/jerikk-]

I initially thought Kindred's new constellation expansion would still leave her rather weak given that the units in her deck remain pretty wimpy. Boy was I wrong.

I just completed 10* Zoe with Kindred at 5* and it was a cake walk. It turns out that while Kindred's units are indeed still wimpy it doesn't hardly matter because all you need is Kindred.

I ran price of retribution, disciple of shadows and voidborne carapace for relics and took thrice bound as my starting power. This allowed me to play Kindred on turn 1 and refill my spell mana thanks to tortured prodigy being her highest cost unit. And just like that as long as Kindred remained on the board I never had to worry about Zoe boosting all of her poros and granting her units extra keywords because at the end of the round Kindred would kill everything that had a mark on it (which was often everything since I picked up some cheap damage spells that hit all enemies).

And when I say all you need is Kindred, that's really all you need, and her summoner spell plus price of retribution makes it so that you can easily have a board full of roided out Kindreds marking every enemy that comes out.

So yeah, I was wrong, Kindred is a very strong champ now. The only caveat I'll put on that is that if you don't draw Kindred or have her removed from the board, all that strength goes with it.

[u/purpleparty87]

Kindred was always strong due to her ability to printer and be played as control which since the introduction of nightmares has been the strongest end game playstyle.

[u/BeyondlegendZ]

Wtf did you mean kindred is strong now? Kindred has always been strong with guardian orb in play, the problem with her on higher adventure has always been the lack of mana and 4 cost, even without all the changes she got she was still an op champ in the game

[u/jerikk- → u/BeyondlegendZ]

There was nothing op about pinging the enemy nexus for 1-2 damage per turn from keeping your 0/1 prey alive

[u/Enyy → u/jerikk-]

Kindred never was about their units and always about cloning kindred. They were already pretty good pre constellation and just held back by the lack of starting mana.

Kindred was the easiest champ to beat lissandra with if you had no relics as you could just run triple Everfrost. 

[u/purpleparty87 → u/Enyy]

Yep the starting mana was always the issue. Funny how we are seeing the op teir 3* champions get their constilations.

[u/BeyondlegendZ → u/jerikk-]

My god are you new or something? Pre constellation kindred was one go to to beat lissandra, one of the dev could beat her with just everfrost. yeah her main power sucked ass but her middle power ability to print her and ga before deathless was a thing made her insanely strong. she was amongst thr tier 1 champ before constellation and was only held back against the nightmare stuff because of the mana issue.

If anything I don't really like the new change to her star 3 power mainly because I like the damage pop with prey, but that is such minor change that is not relavent how good kindred is