Why is Kayn allowed to miss ALL of his skills, then just chilling smite someone and ult?

The Long Weiner·Dec 21, 2017·4 votes·919 views

That's ridiculous. The fact that I can play perfectly against a Kayn as an adc dodging all of his skills and he can just chilling smite me then ult, then just 100%-0 me from there. There's no sense in rewarding bad gameplay or misplays with a point click skill. You really might as well just remove the damage barrier on his ult and just let him ult whoever. It literally leaves me to either ban Kayn every game, or just be waaay back in teamfights and contribute nothing since he can go through walls/smite/ult/dead

8 Comments

PhearBunnyDec 21, 20174 votes

If you are getting 100% to 0%'d by nothing but Chilling smite+Kayns ult, then you clearly didn't build Ninja Tabi, even tho your enemy team has a highly mobile assassin that has the ability to reach you.

The bad gameplay here, is your itemization.

SooFr0styDec 21, 20173 votes

Syndra

The Long WeinerDec 21, 20171 votes

true

Emerald FangDec 21, 20172 votes

His ult deals low damage though so maybe the issue is that you didn't back when you were low and knew the jungler was in your area. Because if you were at full HP there is no WAY a smite+ult will kill you. It might chunk for sure, but it won't finish you.

The Long WeinerDec 21, 20171 votes

Implying he used no other skills, I wasn't detailed enough in my description. Kayn would miss W/Q and be out of range, be able to smite and ult me then follow up with Q/W. No counterplay. Maybe it was the lack of tanks on my team but I was a 15/3 Twitch and he won the game based on him being able to smite/ult me and delete me out of a fight. Make his ult like Syndra's and just let him ult whoever if you're gonna let it be activated by smite. I'd rather that than thinking I have him killed then him being able to chilling smite me and activate it that way.

Emerald FangDec 21, 20171 votes

It definitely WAS the lack of tanks because that's Kayn's kit. He's meant to be a sticky assassin. And if he can stop the god of bot lane Twitch, let alone a 15/3 one? I'd say he's doing a good job or you aren't staying with your team.

DeadMartyrJun 16, 20192 votes

I just had a game where I killed my laner and notice Kayn shadow in the wall so I E as Azir to dodge his W, but then he just ults me because he had chilling smite and needed to R to close the gap. I literally died just because he can proc it off of smite and it's a pretty shitty feeling when I play around the fact he needs to hit me to ult but then shit like smite can give it to him for free so it's basically normal point and click or even as the guy above me said fucking item 3075 item 3076 item 3068 passive. It makes that extra degree of interaction and potential outplay pointless and void, it just feels awful