Kayn with Alistar
How to Synergize Kayn and Alistar
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Kayn Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Alistar
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 Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Kayn Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kayn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Kayn perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn plays on the same team as Alistar, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Alistar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Kayn plays with Alistar on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Kayn in team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best companion for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Alistar is a very typical ally for Kayn. By locking into the same team as Kayn, he decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Kayn and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be very careful when arranging Alistar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Kayn players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kayn and Alistar together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayn in order to work well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Kayn and Alistar synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Kayn incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Kayn players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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