League of Legends Champion Kayn Kayn is in the s tier of champions

Kayn

Fighter Assassin
Kayn is a fighter Role fighter
Difficulty Hard
Power Spike Mid-Game
The Darkin Scythe ability p
Reaping Slash ability q
Blade's Reach ability w
Shadow Step ability e
Umbral Trespass ability r
Stats Build Counters
Runes
Synergies
jungle

Kayn Build

based on 146,307 matches
Win Rate
50.2 %
Pick Rate
13 %
Ban Rate
27.5 %

How We Come Up with Our Kayn Builds

We process over 1 Million League of Legends games every day to bring you the most accurate Kayn build so you can destroy your enemies and improve you win rate. We've broken down our Kayn builds by rank, position, and enemy team type, so you can find the most accurate set of Kayn core items and runes for any situation.

Kayn Build Summary

Kayn is a a decent jungle champ in League of Legends. His best rune sets are Domination Inspiration. Incorporating the selected runes shown below in your Kayn build will give you the additional stats to guarantee he plays well through the laning phase of the round and into the late game. You should start by leveling up his q ability first.

Best Build for Kayn

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
HailbladeRefillable Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Caulfield's WarhammerIronspike Whip

Core Kayn Items

~22 Mins
Prowler's ClawGuardian AngelDeath's DanceIonian Boots of Lucidity

Optional Items

Ravenous HydraSterak's GageFrozen HeartSerylda's Grudge

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Kayn to level up q
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Second ability for Kayn to level up w
>
Last skill for Kayn to max out e

Runes

Domination Dark Harvest Sudden ImpactEyeball CollectionTreasure Hunter
Inspiration Future's MarketCosmic Insight
Adaptive Adaptive HealthScaling
Kayn's passive ability p
Kayn q ability q
Kayn w ability w
Kayn e ability e
Kayn's ultimate ability r
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Q
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E
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W
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Q
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Q
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R
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W
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Q
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Q
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E
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R

Kayn Matchups Overview

Kayn is Weak Against

Master Yi Master Yi 46.1% winrate Fiddlesticks Fiddlesticks 47% winrate Bel'Veth Bel'Veth 47.5% winrate Vi Vi 47.9% winrate

Kayn is Strong Against

Lee Sin Lee Sin 55.3% winrate Xin Zhao Xin Zhao 54.1% winrate Nidalee Nidalee 54.1% winrate Talon Talon 53.7% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

Sion Sion + 53.5% 3617 Games Karthus Karthus + 53.8% 576 Games Rumble Rumble + 55.1% 711 Games Vel'Koz Vel'Koz + 55.5% 2128 Games

More Gameplay Tips for Kayn Players

Tips and Tricks

Don't always select the same Kayne form. Make note of what players are chosen on each time before selecting Kayne's form.

Select Shadow Assassin if your team needs extra damage or if you need to eliminate a hyper carry in team fights.

Darkin Kayne has much more sustain, but can still deal plenty of damage. Choose the Darkin form if you need more sustain in fights.

You build blue essence (shadow) by attacking ranged champions and red essence (darkin) for damaging melee enemies.

Additional Kayn Build Insights

LoL Kayn players may find him to be a complex champion to build out properly. You will see that his build varies when he is fighting either generic or homogenous team compositions, indicating you should not select the same Kayn build every single round of League of Legends

The most essential items to include in your champion's build include: Prowler's Claw, Guardian Angel, and Death's Dance. Those who added these items in their builds had a greater winrate than players who utilized other builds for Kayn. Likewise, if you are trying to beat a well-mixed enemy team arrangement, you should really consider grabbing him the Domination, and Inspiration runes. In recent games, he won the largest fraction of his rounds when equipped with these runes.

We set our Kayn build guidance by analyzing 146,307 recently ranked League rounds with him selected. We only advise the highest winrate Kayn builds that were used by ranked players enough times for us to advise them. With so many rounds in our dataset, we are quite confident in our suggested builds.