Lux with Kayn
How to Synergize Lux and Kayn
based on 18,502 Lux with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lux Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Lux vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Lux with Kayn
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Advice to Understand How Kayn Will Play
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.
Lux Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Lux in LoL
The Lux Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lux sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kayn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayn helps Lux perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lux plays on the same team as Kayn, she observes a small increase in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Kayn supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played alongside Kayn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kayn.
Additionally, when Lux plays with Kayn on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kayn does a poor job of covering Lux during teamfights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no perfect synergy for Lux that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Kayn is a very typical teammate for Lux. By playing on the same side as Lux, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Lux and Kayn that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Lux. That means you should be cautious when arranging Kayn allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Lux players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Lux and Kayn together, you will not be giving your team a lot of AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lux to work well with Kayn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Lux and Kayn synergy build consist of Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Lux incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Kayn than with many other common builds. In fact, Lux boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kayn with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Lux players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Lux and Kayn pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Kayn with Lux are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.