Kayn's passive meter is wack

Axes of Noxus··14 votes·9,487 views

Instead of this "it only shows how much the dominant amount has contributed" white ring crap, let's have both forms, in their respective colors, show on the meter and there's definitely numbers assigned to determine how much meter so much damage gives so let's say the total needed and how much each form has gotten when hovering over the passive so late transformers and people who can't keep track of who they're slaughtering know what to buy.

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Supreme Senpai696 votes

Yep. If your meter is at 50% for ranged champs and 0% for melee, killing enough melee champs to fill it 50% wont make the meter budge. They should just make the right side melee and the left side ranged. Halve the progression (visually) for each and make them meet in the middle. First one to the middle wins.

Z3Sleeper1 votes

IMO the circle needs to be axed. It should just be a bar somewhere or even just numbers on the buff bar like how statikk shiv stacks with 1 "buff" for each form.

Fear the Kayn4 votes

Kayn might be one of the buggiest/strangest champs in LoL (not even close to the king of bugs, Mordekaiser himself) but lets see here... just off the top of my head we have:

  1. His Q randomly going on cooldown and nothing happens when you use the ability sometimes
  2. half of his voicelines just flat out don't exist in game
  3. doesn't recover HP/mana when transforming

The passive meter being strange and unintuitive is just one of the very many issues Kayn has right now relating to bugs/bad design choices. Most of them don't actually affect his gameplay though so I still love him.

Divewing4 votes

The logic according to Rito is if it showed you completely, people would gank based on that rather than where they should gank.

I personally feel that's silly, considering base Kayn is fucking trash tier, that you need your form ASAP, so you target the champs that give you the form you want with EVEN MORE prejudice, because you don't know how many times you can slap Malphite before you get a Rhaast form you didn't want.

My Waifu Vanilla2 votes

I mean at least now after the recent buff it is a little bit easier to track what you will transform into since you don't suddenly spike super hard in effective meter gain over time and it is much more fluid. You aren't going to be camping top lane all laning phase expecting Rhaast then go bot lane for a counter gank against Kindred where they have 2 ranged champions bot and then suddenly get SA out of that one fight. Don't get me wrong it IS still a problem, but with the recent buff it isn't AS much of a surprise when you get a different form. It is still a coin flip though if you gank both melee and ranged equally though.

Demonblade Talon1 votes

I just want it to be 1 type of essence so we can just choose what form we want instead of waiting 5 minutes due to having to babysit a lane with wrong essence.

SanKakU1 votes

So far, I can complete it pretty easily just by finishing my jungle item. Then I just go with the flow and buy appropriate items after transformation without waiting. I feel like people agonizing over which form to use are worrying too much. Both forms seem so darn good, although TBPH I think the non-Darkin form is better, at least in the current meta.

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