Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some vital Kindred against Blitzcrank counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between these two champs. As an example, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Blitzcrank. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Kindred typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Blitzcrank. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kindred usually loses when taking on Blitzcrank, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Kindred makes a bad counter to Blitzcrank.
While Kindred does have a lower winrate than Blitzcrank, when they face off with one another, Kindred also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kindred into Blitzcrank.
Furthermore, Kindred has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kindred is a bad counter for Blitzcrank. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Blitzcrank.
To truly master Kindred in order to counter Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Blitzcrank. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Kindred versus Blitzcrank build include Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when facing Blitzcrank than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when countering Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Blitzcrank as Kindred, Kindred players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Kindred vs Blitzcrank LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.7% win rate overall.
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