Kayn with Darius
How to Synergize Kayn and Darius
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Kayn Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Darius
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Kayn Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Darius. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Darius helps Kayn perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is paired with Darius, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Darius does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played alongside Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Darius. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Darius.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Darius on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Darius does a decent job of covering Kayn during team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Darius?
There is no top companion for Kayn that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Darius is a relatively poor companion for Kayn. By locking into the same team as Kayn, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Kayn and Darius that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be cautious when finding Darius allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kayn and Darius together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Darius ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kayn in order to pair well with Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Kayn and Darius synergy build include Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Kayn included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Darius than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kayn boasted an average winrate of 47.7% helping carry Darius with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.7% winrate overall.
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