Talk:Kindred/@comment-5015210-20160113151935

Currently my main in top, bot, jungle and mid. Whichever lane I almost always get a first blood at level three, or two utilising flash + ignite. The damage you can dish out with Q+W early is ridic.

This is how I build her, depending on the situation. In top lane and mid lane I like to go with executioner's calling if the opponent is able to keep up with me in the lane. Grievous Wounds on EC will help killing them after I have gone through the first round of Q+W at level 2.

Alternatively, Hexdrinker for magic damagey champions (Teemo, Malphite) or Sheen into Iceborn Gauntlet vs AD champions (Yasuo, Lee Sin). If I feel like I'm not taking too much damage I can omit Hexdrinker and Iceborn Gauntlet and go straight for the damages (Brawlers Gloves into Runaan, or Essence Reaver, or Infinity Edge). This way if you can survive the trade, you will snowball easily killing your opponent.

The Core stats are Lifesteal and Damage and defenses for which I build Maw of Malmortius and Iceborn Gauntlet. For Lifesteal, I will sometimes buy Death's Dance early against no-burst champions, or Bloodthirster so I can burst instead. With either of these two items I combine Blade of the Ruined King.

That makes it, Death's Dance, Maw, Blade of the Ruined King, Boots(atk spd preferably, alternatively, Merc's), Iceborn Gauntlet.

I have place for one more item. This should be a crit item. For mostly melee enemy teams I go with Runaans; that works well with BotRK and Death's Dance, and makes split pushing easier. Also, with Iceborn Gauntlet and Q I can deal a good amount of AoE damage, while also getting tons of health back. Alternatively I might buy Essence Reaver early, and later trade it for Infinity Edge or One of Zeal component items. However I would trade Essence Reaver for IE only after getting Iceborn Gauntlet.

An example of such a build: http://matchhistory.eune.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/EUN1/1323487833/31516763?tab=overview

Teemo was getting demolished early game in top lane by me. I went with Executioner's Calling + Brawler's Gloves first, building Hexdrinker into Maw to counter his magic damage output. When enemy Lee Sin started getting dangerously strong I went ahead and bought Iceborn Gauntlet. Kiting him was from then no problem. All mombers of enemy team were no problem to duel, and even when more of them appeared my ult saved the day and allowed me to finish of the duelist, or escape.

More items to consider: Frozen Mallet and Trinity Force instead of Iceborn Gauntlet, Mercury Treads and Boots of Swiftness, Mortal Reminder, Black Cleaver. The reason I don't build those is they are mostly Damage and no Utility. Even though they are nice situational items, they seem kinda selfish and since Kindred should be played as an Assassin, you have to compensate with items to deem yourself usefull, either by on-deman slow from Iceborn Gauntlet or sweet AoE from Runaan's + Botrk.