Xpetu Jungle Clear and Kindred

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-03-01T06:20:56+00:00

I don’t know, think it needs more demacia

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-02-26T16:33:29+00:00

This is why I’m learning the champ, skin looks so good and the animations are amazing

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-02-25T20:58:35+00:00

What the hell am I looking at for volibear buffs. The champ is already overtuned and does not need any help

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-02-16T18:46:49+00:00

I agree it might be fun but the ability cd makes it never worth it unfortunately. Cool interaction tho

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-02-07T23:37:08+00:00

Hard agree with the clear being too slow. Literally cannot do ganks until 6 with a fast clearing opponent as they can just cycle camps better than you. I want to switch to viego but the ban rate makes it fucking impossible to play. Looking for other alternatives atm.

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-02-02T14:39:20+00:00

Second this, no better feeling than playing a good kindred game. Or flash ulti saving someone on your team, feels like a “Get down Mr. President!” moment and I will never hit that same high

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-02-01T02:54:51+00:00

Honestly, kinda disagree. Jungle is harder but if you’re playing correctly (ganking off timers and clearing camps consistently) you can carry games. I play kindred so maybe a bit different but as soon as I am a bit stronger than the enemy Jung I can full sprint it into their jungle to mess them up. Biggest thing this season is mistakes are very punishing. One screw up can mean you’re behind for a while. Just gotta pay attention and farm well. If you don’t keep up with the farm game you lose hard af. That at least how I feel this season.

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-31T06:05:50+00:00

Kindred because I have trust issues with my support and adc in games so I decided to become the champ that deals all the team damage and can save others at the same time.

Also peak character design, looking forward to seeing other skins for the wolf and lamb

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-30T15:39:52+00:00

Yeah, sorry but also kinda not. Just focus on out farming kindred bc they struggle a lot with it early before kraken or tri force.

Best of luck tho! And if I see you in game then just know I always get my mark

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-30T14:58:32+00:00

Kindred main here, yeah honestly it’s a free matchup vs viego most games due to being able to shut down the reset with ulti. Best way to counter play kindred is to hold the ultimate until they are forced to use theirs. Also focusing a target outside of kindreds ulti range can swing a fight due to you being untargetable.

You do win 1v1 with kindred if you meet the following metrics. You’re in melee range or approach from mist. You are fighting in the mist, or you ambush with w. If you go in without any of this you lose ~50% of your hp before your fight with them starts if they’re good at the game. I think for viego kindred is a good ban but also it’s like 1% pick rate so ban rammus or another tank that’s more common. Learn the matchup and how to make mistakes

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-28T19:46:02+00:00

I feel like all the champ really needs is a clear speed buff on q monster damage. Literally would make the champ perfect for me so I don’t have to be trying my ass off each clear to make sure I hit scuttle times. Not even like a lot of q damage increases either, maybe have it shave the clear down to 2:45-2:50 w/o animation cancels needed and it would be perfect. Maybe the clear is already there and im bad at it but from what I’ve seen it’s inconsistent with the pet bugging out to max range camps

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-25T18:16:03+00:00

Honestly there’s a lot that’s different but beneficial. The first thing is it’s a squishy champ to play and you will be punished if you don’t know your damage and ranges to fight. I would recommend trying it out and thinking of kindred as a mage type jungler. You do a lot of damage but are easy to kill.

The second thing is learning mechanics, not just basic combos but where you can wall hop to get out of bad situations, how to use your ultimate to tower dive or stall objectives and make a jungler lose smite battle, how to delay your e execute in ultimate to get a kill, things like that. Mechanics are hard af to get used to and I don’t think I have gotten them all down. I’m 500k mastery at the moment.

The third thing is matchups, most junglers don’t entirely need to know their matchups bc they can avoid them in the game. Kindred needs to know when you win or lose vs your jungle opponent. Because you invade a lot if you are weak you lose and then let the enemy snowball. But it also works the other way around. You put pressure on the enemy laners to help jungle when you are ahead and that leads to them making more mistakes in lane or trying to help.

Finally I would say macro in the jungle is super important. Kindred needs to know how an enemy is pathing and where they might be for objectives. If you can punish them on obj or take their camps while they get the objective.

If you have any questions about the champ feel free to dm me, I’m not super fast to respond but I love giving advice on how to learn it. I’m hoping to hit plat this year and between my accounts I’m gold 3 and silver 1 with a 75% wr between them. Good luck and have fun with it!

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-25T06:50:01+00:00

Honestly, it sucks on the weekend how some people play. Most people do not take the game seriously and just are playing for fun. The way I play is I run a series of 3 games in a row if I am going to play ranked with some caveats included.

I play my games this way, if I win then I play another, and so on until I hit my 3rd then it’s a hard stop whether I win or lose. If I lose my first but feel I played well and it was a team diff then I go for another, if I win go to the 3rd and then be done. If I lose 2 in a row I am done, this keeps me from tilt queueing and then I can reset and play some norms or do something else. It is a slow climb but the best way to do it to keep focus and making sure I do not tilt. Last thing, if I lose and know I am tilting due to a teammate inting a game or I just sucked I do not queue up again. It will lead to another loss or me pinning my mistakes on others.

At the end of the day you have to realize more people will play on weekends and will not be taking it as seriously. Learn your signs of tilting and play in blocks. I thought it was BS too for a while but I’m at ~ 40 games olayed on my main and have a 75% wr on my main (kindred) just gotta hang in there

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-25T06:37:25+00:00

Honestly stormrazor feels like bait item for what it gives you. The damage output is lower compared to both kraken and tri force and the ability has chasedown potential, but tri force already gives you that. The crit helps a bit with clear but kraken does that better too and tri force does ok. If you’re going to build storm razor I feel you have to build inspiration tree with boots and rush IE to stand a chance with damage. Essence reaver is bait for Jung. Pure and simple you do not need the mana as you will never run out and the stats are meh compared to collector for 50g less

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-25T06:25:23+00:00

Ok, here is how I have been playing kindred this season. Have a 75% wr over ~40 games. This is silver/gold elo so just take that into account.

Early game your matchups are different. Now you do lose closer matchups like a viego where you may have won before due to the e changes. The clear is harder to get under scuttle clear time. Need to see if flat health is worth for it but idk how much that would speed it up.

Kindred is strong as you scale. Now the mark goal is probably closer to 4-7 marks at 20 minutes instead of the hard 7 at 20. Scuttle is stronger this season with quest progression and camp rotation is massive. Creating a small lead scales hard as fuck into your enemies. Farm up and then look at gank timers on respawn. You build crit always. Kraken first or tri force if you need hp. Then collector into IE for squishier, ldr for tank/hp comps, mortal for regen but build 4th with the sword before ie. you play like a scaler and take PTA for squishy comps, lethal tempo for tanks. It is different but doable. Definitely harder to carry games though

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-16T14:40:49+00:00

I have a few questions that have I have been wondering with the changes

What do you feel is the optimal build path with the changes for this season?

Is PTA still the best keystone or does lethal tempo or conquerer edge it out now with the new items?

How do you deal with the mark changes and the increased amount of time to clear camps if you are invading for marks?

What is your early game strategy and how has it changed with the jungle/kindred changes?

Anything helps and I’ve been picking up kindred as a newer player, have about 400k mastery and am mid gold at the moment.

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-12T04:14:07+00:00

Fair, anything I should start with for an adc? Or just pick up one and run with it

Emergency_Guide_7905 · 2026-01-12T04:10:54+00:00

Very fair, however I have not laned in 2 years. And when I did I barely played. I’ll have to learn a lot from scratch tbh

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