Kayn with Samira
How to Synergize Kayn and Samira
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Kayn Samira Synergy Summary
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Tips for Playing as Kayn with Samira
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Kayn Samira Synergy Stats
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The Kayn Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Samira helps Kayn perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is paired with Samira, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Samira does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Samira on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Samira.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Samira on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Samira does a decent job of covering Kayn during team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Samira?
There is no ideal companion for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Samira is a relatively poor ally for Kayn. By locking into the same side as Kayn, she lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Kayn and Samira that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Samira has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Samira allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Kayn and Samira together, you may not be providing your other allies enough magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Samira ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayn in order to work well with Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Kayn and Samira synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Hubris. When Kayn bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Samira than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kayn boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when playing alongside Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Kayn and Samira pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
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