Kayn with Kassadin
How to Synergize Kayn and Kassadin
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Kayn Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Kayn Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kassadin helps Kayn perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is paired with Kassadin, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Kassadin does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played alongside Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Kayn plays with Kassadin on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Kayn in team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Kayn that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Kassadin is a very typical ally for Kayn. By being on the same team as Kayn, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 49.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Kayn and Kassadin that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kassadin has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Kassadin allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Kayn players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Kayn and Kassadin together, you probably will not be providing your side much support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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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 Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Kayn and Kassadin synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Kayn used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Kassadin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kayn players should take 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 builds players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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