Talk:Kindred/@comment-33536623-20150928230329/@comment-26837195-20151005123259

The passive works on assists, and generally you'd want to avoid counterjungling early on, only take crab marks, and if you do counter jungle early on, just use a ward then dive in to steal with smite so you don't have lower HP to trade with the enemy jungler.

The E is like a second or third smite due to its damage, but either you need to have blue buff or be willing to get your mana from 300~ to 230~ (70 mana is a lot, taking 1/10~ of your mana from even level 18 if you don't build mana). This makes Kindred great at having those rare few camps that you want to waste mana on to clear as quickly as possible (counter jungling only for marks), but slow due to only having 2 abilities in all her other camps (do not counter jungle simply to impede the enemy).