Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some strategic Kayn against Blitzcrank matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. Kayn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayn may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Blitzcrank. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kayn usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Blitzcrank. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayn usually fairs equally well when playing against Blitzcrank, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Kayn makes an ok counter to Blitzcrank.
While Kayn does have a higher winrate than Blitzcrank, when they face off with one another, Kayn also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayn into Blitzcrankas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayn also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This often 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 Kayn vs Blitzcrank matchups, Kayn is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kayn is a decent counter for Blitzcrank. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kayn against Blitzcrank.
If you would like to truly master Kayn to counter Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayn typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Blitzcrank. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Kayn versus Blitzcrank build include Goredrinker, Maw of Malmortius, and Death's Dance. When Kayn incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Blitzcrank than with most other common builds. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 50.8% battling Blitzcrank with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Blitzcrank as Kayn, Kayn players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kayn vs Blitzcrank fights, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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