How to win the jungle race as Kindred against Udyr · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Kindred's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Udyr.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Danger — Avoid Udyr | Do not be seen at the first buff: Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line. On top of that, Blazing Stampede's stun plus Wingborne Storm shred wins any straight fight, so they get there first. Pre-position toward your tier-two side and dodge the first stun engage. Skip the level-1 crossing and farm the opposite quadrant until your spike lands. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Danger — Avoid Udyr | Hard no-contest for Kindred at level 2: Blazing Stampede's stun plus Wingborne Storm shred wins any straight fight, and Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line. Pre-position toward your tier-two side and dodge the first stun engage. Path opposite, ward your entrances, and let the clock carry you to your own spike. |
| Level 3 Route | Respect Udyr | Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line — Kindred has no answer to that at level 3. Four stance points are online and their awakened trades hit their hardest window on their half of the map too, so give up the level-3 river fight and answer the pressure cross-map. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Respect Udyr — Path Opposite | You lose the 4-5 duel. He farms 4-5 at speed and takes any fight near a wall, since Blazing Stampede needs only a straight line — so let them have that half of the map and cash the other half faster. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Udyr's R | The six-spike belongs to Udyr, and Kindred's does not bridge the gap: awakened Blazing Stampede chains stuns faster than your cooldowns recover. Break the chase with walls — his power is point-blank and he cannot force the fight. Your own ultimate is a tool here, not a trump card — spend it to escape or equalize, not to start fights. |
| First Item Spike | Kraken Slayer / Terminus | Kraken Slayer's on-hit true damage proc and the Terminus on-hit shred both pair well with Kindred's attack-reset-heavy kit, speeding up clears and dueling. Use this priority window to force aggressive counter-jungle invades or capture remaining marks. Udyr's first item is where the awakened stance rotations stop being a heavy trade and start being a kill. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Kindred Favoured — Wins Late | The late game is yours. Remember what Udyr still is at full build — he is an awakened-stance brawler with sustain, damage and a stun on a short timer — and take the fights that do not let it matter. |
Start your clearing path at the Blue Buff camp to secure optimal ability haste looping across your starting single-target nodes before clearing down into the scuttle crab side. Udyr clears extremely fast with stance swaps and shields himself through it, so he is rarely below full health.
Ranked by the race windows in Kindred's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Kindred vs Udyr report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Udyr pressures 5 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Udyr pressures 5 of the 7 windows, so Kindred is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
Kindred takes Press the Attack on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace, and Domination secondary (Sudden Impact and Treasure Hunter) vs Udyr.
Start Gustwalker Hatchling + Health Potion and back for Noonquiver / Recurve Bow — path toward the next mark on the back. Build Kraken Slayer first, then Blade of the Ruined King / Runaan's Hurricane, with Berserker's Greaves.
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