# Kindred Counters, Matchups & Tips | Baron Buff
See Kindred counters, hardest matchups, and tips to play against or draft around Kindred in League of Legends.
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Marksman · Backline Carry · Jungle

Prepare for battle with Kindred — master their strengths and exploit their weaknesses before the game starts.

## Playstyle Profile

Teamfight Role

Power Spike Mid game

Split Threat None

Backline Access Low

## Kindred's Strengths

- Repositions freely in fights — Kindred's dashes extend their damage window and dodge key abilities

## How to Play Kindred

Champion-specific pre-match tips

### Lane Phase

Cast W immediately after your first Q to guarantee the maximum number of reduced-cooldown dashes while the zone remains active.

### Lane Phase

Move continuously between auto-attacks to rapidly build your W passive stacks, triggering the heal to sustain through early trades.

### Lane Phase

Auto-attack, cast Q to reposition, and instantly auto-attack again to cancel the animation and maximize your burst damage.

### Mid Game

Cast W over walls to grant vision of blind terrain before using Q to hop the wall during rotations or invades.

### Mid Game

Stack E twice on a priority target while inside your ult, holding the third attack until the invulnerability drops to instantly execute them through the base heal.

### Mid Game

Select your passive mark on an enemy champion 8 seconds before committing to a skirmish to ensure the bounty arms right before the kill.

### Late Game

Space at your maximum passive-upgraded attack range during 5v5 teamfights, saving Q strictly to kite backwards when an enemy uses a gap closer.

### Late Game

Position your ult near a thin wall so you can Q over the terrain exactly as the invulnerability ends to escape the post-ult burst.

### Late Game

Cast E on the closest frontline tank during front-to-back fights, triggering the third hit when they drop below 30 percent health to maximize the missing-health execute damage.

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## Core Build

Ranked from real ranked-match itemization

We look at ranked games after each item was bought. If the player or team gained ground in gold, we rate that item higher.

- Kraken Slayer — 3,000

- Berserker's Greaves (Boots) — 1,100

- Blade of The Ruined King — 3,200

- Lord Dominik's Regards — 3,300

- The Collector — 3,000

- Trinity Force — 3,333

total: 16,933

## How to Counter Kindred

Counter strategies and draft context

dive the backline, deny farm early, or outpace their scaling with early aggression

- Dashes don't help against hard CC — Kindred's mobility is useless when locked down

- Vulnerable to burst damage — Kindred's mobility only matters if they survive the initial rotation

- Assassins that bypass the frontline

- Hard-engage compositions that force fights early

### Kindred's Weaknesses

- Point-and-click CC — Kindred's mobility is useless against targeted lockdown that can't be dodged

## Best Synergies with Kindred

Team synergies and draft context

- Engage frontlines that create space and draw enemy cooldowns so Kindred can safely reposition and deal damage

- CC chains that lock down priority targets so Kindred can safely commit damage without needing to dodge

- Peel supports that keep assassins and divers away from you

- Engage tanks that create space for safe DPS positioning

### Draft Context

- Drafts no frontline — Kindred is mobile but still needs space and time to deal sustained damage

## Learning Curve

[Based on 1.2M+ matches](https://baronbuff.com/blog/mastery_by_tier/) across all ranked elos, showing how Kindred's win rate changes with mastery level

Kindred has exceptional depth — there is always something new to learn, and the learning curve is among the steepest in the game. Expect a long stretch of low win rates before meaningful improvement — mastering this champion demands serious commitment.

Skill Cap Very High

Cost of Learning Extremely High

Win Rate Delta by Mastery

Mastery Level | Win Rate |

1-2 | 38.4% |

3-4 | 44.7% |

5-6 | 45.4% |

7-8 | 45.4% |

9-12 | 47.3% |

13-16 * | 57.3% |

17+ | 57.3% |

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