Tristana vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Tristana
based on 6,331 Tristana vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Kayn
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Tristana in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some significant Tristana against Kayn counter statistics that can help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayn’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kayn..
Tristana typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Kayn. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Kayn
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Who is Better, Tristana or Kayn?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kayn, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes an ok counter to Kayn.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Kayn, when facing one another, Tristana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Kayn.
Additionally, Tristana has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Kayn matchups, Kayn is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter for Kayn. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana to counter Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana usually gets much more CS compared to Kayn. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Tristana versus Kayn build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Tristana included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Kayn than with many other common builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 49.2% battling Kayn with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Kayn as Tristana, Tristana players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Bloodline runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Tristana vs Kayn counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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