Kayn vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Kayn
based on 1,296 Kayn vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayn vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Kayn vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Kayn
Tips for Playing as Kayn against Elise
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Advice to Win Against Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Kayn vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Kayn in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Kayn versus Elise matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Kayn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kayn may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Elise..
Kayn often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Elise. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayn and Elise
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Who is Better, Kayn or Elise?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayn usually wins when trying to fight Elise, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Kayn makes a good counter to Elise.
While Kayn does have a higher win rate compared to Elise, when facing one another, Kayn also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kayn into Eliseas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayn also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayn vs Elise matchups, Kayn is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kayn is an above average counter to Elise. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kayn against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayn to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayn often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Elise. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kayn versus Elise build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Kayn incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Elise than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kayn had an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Elise with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Elise as Kayn, Kayn players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Kayn vs Elise clashes, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Elise as Kayn are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.