User blog comment:Lesdin/Darssan, the Inciter/@comment-26815373-20160224202750/@comment-3391671-20160226061708

Pardon my intrusion into this thread, but I wished to offer my two-cents about the plothole.

You do make a sound point in regards to how the Kindred works, in that death may be "denied" under given conditions. Based on this deduction, Gangplank may have encountered the Kindred, but they looked at him, believing "you are not ready to die". The same occurs for the actress Magga in the Kindred's lore: "You have come to us tonight; we have not come for you.". In Darssan's case though, it is explicitly stated that the Kindred are there to lay rest Darssan's life. Other champions who have "escaped" Kindred is not by escaping the act of dying but from reviving after death.

That's just my take of how the Kindred works in regards to "rejecting" the death call.