Should You Main Kindred? Tier B
Kindred is tier B for maining, around the middle of the game. 3 Challenger and 8 Grandmaster mains across the three major regions, on 224,015 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Kindred scores 4.86 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 4.86 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 3 Challenger · 8 Grandmaster · 85 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 224,015 games played worldwide · 2.43% pick rate · 0.97% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
So I would say it's very difficult to play Kha'Zix. Kindred on the other hand you're ranged. You do a lot of damage.
You belong in the good main. So Kra's always been very good. Kaido plays Kaisix and Kindred.
So he's better at Kindred than Kha'Zix. Not very surprising based on the data. And three three challenger Kindred mains and eight GM Kindred mains, half the player base as Kha'Zix.
So, you're going to get banned half the time as Kha'Zix and you're going to get banned you're going to get the champion like almost twice as much. So, it's going to be less contested and less banned. I would recommend if choosing between these two champions, let's say you follow Kaido, one of the best junglers in North America, just play Kindred.
So, next champion is going to be Kled.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.