To summarize my experience in the D 3 range even before S 7 . It went one of two ways . 1 . I got insanely fed early and everything went perfectly . . . but due team deathmatch hype and COD and scaling teams tons of wave clear comps etc it dragged onto late game forcing me to build super tanky and sit in the back to defend my carry . If you deviated from the tanky bruiser Kindred then anyone not support could walk up and 1 v 1 you . The sadder part is most of the time you required red smite to win trades anyways . Now don ' t get me wrong here . If you get the jump on a squishy , you can destroy them . But the key is . . . you have to get the jump on them . And that ' s not easy to do against a really insane front line support chilling with exhaust , and if the squishy is DravenVayne they very well could turn and delete you from existence . If extreme herp derp takes place the game boils down to me ulting to make bad team mates look good while I bait the enemy team into turret diving . The other way games went I get invaded by the premades nonstop , the enemy team is highly coordinated and I don ' t get a single mark and I have to scrounge CS as the enemy jungle flashes his mastery banner at me while his TFRyze Mid lane insert random support spams laugh emote and my team is telling me to kms . This game either facerolls into a defeat , or I manage to stall the game for 50 minutes via ulting just in time to make a turret dive go bad and then I abuse frozen mallet runaans to keep their front line off of the carry and milk marks off of them . Regardless , I never do become that insane late game monster that people like to boast that Kindred is . I basically become an over glorified secondary support abusing fervor cleaver frozen mallet while I wet noodle slap tanks keeping them perma slowed off of the adc . An absurdly powerful late game monster wouldn ' t have to resort to being a secondary support to winning a game on clutch ults via turret dives . An absurdly power late game hunting monster would catch people and slaughter them like Rango . Kindred doesn ' t meet the hunter fantasy imho . Let alone the grim reaper like she is in the lore .