Kayn vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Kayn
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Kayn vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Kayn vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Kayn
Tips for Playing as Kayn against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Kayn vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Kayn in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some important Kayn against Taliyah counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Kayn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kayn may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taliyah..
Kayn usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Taliyah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayn and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Kayn or Taliyah?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayn usually fairs equally well when taking on Taliyah, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Kayn makes an ok counter for Taliyah.
While Kayn does have a lower win rate than Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Kayn also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayn into Taliyahas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayn has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kayn is a somewhat poor counter for Taliyah. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kayn against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayn in order to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayn typically gets a lot less CS relative to Taliyah. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Kayn versus Taliyah build include Hubris, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Kayn incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Taliyah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Taliyah with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Taliyah as Kayn, Kayn players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Kayn vs Taliyah fights, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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