Talk:Kindred/@comment-26808509-20170601175252/@comment-4636093-20170602005432

Kindred lost a lot of power bot lane a while ago when they removed the heal on W. Before it was a powerful niche that they were the only Marksmen with built in sustain (i.e: if you laned alongside a Leona... it was like ALSO laning alongside a Sona).

I think the main issue now is that all of that late game power is situated behind getting stacks. The range increase is dependant on getting stacks, the Attack Speed steroid is dependant on getting stacks, the damage on W is dependant on getting stacks, the damage on E is dependant on getting stacks...

Getting Stacks is a priority and you should be trying to flash farm as many of them as possible, especially since the range increases are every 4th stack, which means that you're not getting anything before then. Then you don't get any range increase from the next 3 stacks but a bit extra from the 4th... etc.