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 stats shown on this page feature several valuable Yuumi against Kindred matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kindred. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Yuumi normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Kindred. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when playing against Kindred, with a 41.4% win rate. Therefore, Yuumi makes a poor counter to Kindred.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate compared to Kindred, when on opposite teams, Yuumi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Yuumi into Kindred.
Moreover, Yuumi also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This often 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 Yuumi vs Kindred matchups, Kindred is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Yuumi is a trash counter to Kindred. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yuumi against Kindred.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yuumi to counter Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi most often gets a lot less CS relative to Kindred. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Yuumi versus Kindred build include Mikael's Blessing, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Kindred than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average win rate of 41.4% when playing against Kindred with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Kindred as Yuumi, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Yuumi vs Kindred clashes, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 41.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kindred as Yuumi are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.