Kayn with Gwen
How to Synergize Kayn and Gwen
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Kayn Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Kayn Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gwen helps Kayn perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is paired with Gwen, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Gwen does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Gwen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gwen.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Gwen on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Kayn during team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no top companion for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Gwen is a very typical companion for Kayn. By playing on the same team as Kayn, she decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 48.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Kayn and Gwen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gwen has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Gwen allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kayn and Gwen together, you will not be giving your team a lot of magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Gwen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Kayn to work well with Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Kayn and Gwen synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Kayn incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gwen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average win rate of 48.6% when playing alongside Gwen with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 runes players used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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