Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several significant Sivir against Kindred matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Sivir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kindred’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Sivir may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kindred..
Sivir typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Kindred. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sivir usually loses when trying to fight Kindred, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Sivir makes a bad counter for Kindred.
While Sivir does have a lower win rate compared to Kindred, when facing one another, Sivir also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Sivir into Kindred.
Additionally, Sivir also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sivir vs Kindred matchups, Kindred is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Sivir is a somewhat poor counter to Kindred. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sivir against Kindred.
To learn all of the intricacies of Sivir in order to counter Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sivir often picks up much more CS as Kindred. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Sivir versus Kindred build consist of Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Sivir bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Kindred than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sivir had an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Kindred with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Kindred as Sivir, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Sivir vs Kindred clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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