Elise vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Elise
based on 1,296 Elise vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Kayn
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
Advice to Win Against Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Elise vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Elise in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several critical Elise versus Kayn counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayn’s ratio of NaN, showing that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kayn..
Elise typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Kayn. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Elise and Kayn
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Who is Better, Elise or Kayn?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when trying to fight Kayn, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Elise makes a bad counter for Kayn.
While Elise does have a lower winrate compared to Kayn, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Elise into Kaynas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Elise has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise vs Kayn matchups, Kayn is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Elise is a trash counter to Kayn. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Elise against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Elise to counter Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Kayn. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Elise versus Kayn build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Kayn than with many other typical builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Kayn with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Kayn as Elise, Elise players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Elise vs Kayn matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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