User blog comment:Shigfugjum/Kindred's Niche in the Jungle Ecosystem/@comment-33536623-20151009011411

I mostly skimmed through your texts & probably missed some points but here is part of an argument, Firstly, she is not really a marksman to the books, she makes it by definition as a autoattack reliant champion but she really doesnt buy expensive items to be a Marksman, its not like old ashe when you had to buy PD, IE & Shiv to start to do something outside of a permaslow, its more like hitting a key powerspike & certain level of innate power to start to do good, alot like Kalista or Vayne. Look, whats in common with Kindred, Kalista & Vayne, they all synergize amazingly with Attack speed, Kindred does lots of damage with her infinitely scaling percent health damage, Kalista stacks her spears at higher levels of speed (Therefore having better damage overall) & Vayne gets more true damage procs. These three all like Bork & in general attack speed & attack speed focused items arent too expensive

I agree with that her current placement in the meta is very very bad, she will likely need some buffs to deal with the early game focused champions again due to how squishy she is & for the fact that since she is required to get stacks to be relevant, I predict her winrate to be at most 43% on release, especially since noobs will have no idea why her passive is so relevant & they will be all "Oh me gwad, Kindred so wek she has no demeges"

On the subject of the hard set meta, its really being chipped down from the original solidified idea from season 1 to more uniqueness, you see Yasuos, Zeds, Azirs & Lulus in the toplane, you see Ezreals, Vaynes, Kayles in the jungle, you see some marksmans coming back to the midlane, you even see weird marksman choices ever since the start of Mordebot & of cource, original tanky toplaners or junglers are stepping down to supporting