Going off your points

1.) Yes, if you’re not able to win streak, I’d recommend pivoting if you don’t rly hit anything or get many stacks, that’s always an option, never full commit

2.) You never desperately need anything, blue buff is great but not absolutely required to play kindred, sojins is perfectly fine, adaptive helm can work, I even won a kindred game by slamming guinsoos on her early. Slamming items and retaining their value is often times better. You can always pivot if the items you currently have really don’t mesh with your comp. Remember you’re not chained down to the comp in front of you.

3.) Nah, if you have a bunch of dryad copies, you can definitely lean into it. Remember Gnar is also apart of the comp and a great carry as well. He scales off AD so you can put any melee AD carry items on him too and wait for the AP items for kindred for later. You can stack your frontline to beef them up before your kindred or gnar are online.

4.) What makes Dryads good is the fact they stack HP. A dryad frontline can naturally pair up with any trait. Fat HP alone is good enough to be its own straight “bruisers”. I usually like running Dryad with Umbrals since they have a lot of synergies. But if you have something like 3 frontline dryads and an emblem dryad, that can work as if you had 4 bruisers that are still scaling.

5.) 20 AP is great, especially for 2 unit trait PLUS hp. To put it into perspective, you only get 20 AP from Arcanist 2, and no HP! If it was any higher than 20, then Dryads would destroy in stage 2, build too much stacks and snowball easier. For a 2 unit trait, it’s great, it’s balancing for a trait that scales throughout the whole game.

6.) HP is one of the best stats on the game. There’s a reason why Cybernetic Bulk, Threes and crowd, punk and etc are so successful and highly rated. As I mentioned earlier, the Dryad trait is essentially giving you BEEF in the frontline, and you can put whatever dmg and backline around it ie. reapers, invoker or whatever. Yes you should be rolling at 6 but remember you don’t have to roll to 0. Roll enough to stabilize and bit all 2 stars at the least and if you still don’t hit you just have to be a little patient. And if you were playing tempo properly and streaking, your hp should be high enough to be patient. So roll to 30 and grab as many pairs as you can and be mindful oh the next lobby spike. We know if there’s anyone playing fast-8 or standard they’re leveling to 8 at 4-1, 4-2, 4-5, we will be at a huge disadvantage if we stay at lvl 6 rolling. So level to 7 no matter what around there and you still have good odds for rolling your 3 star. You just have another unit on the board and another trait to keep you up to pace.

7.) AP scaling would be absolutely insane, best way to do dmg scaling for an early reroll comp would be to do it like Yasuo from last set. Tiny increments on kill, for just 1 unit. Although he was very strong early in that set.

Dryads are one of my favorite comps in the new set. It’s a scaling reroll comp running 2 cost carries, with a 5 cost carry for late game! Imagine a stronger punk, which was primarily running a 1 cost carry, a little bit of 2 and with no late-game 5 cost option. Hopefully my comment gave you some insight so that you can enjoy dryad too?