Couple things about Kayn

Jesuszilla·7/17/2017, 6:19:55 AM·5 votes·993 views

So I've been powering through as many games as Kayn recently trying to get my quest done and I've noticed some things that poke out at me or feel weird.

  1. Passive - This thing is a QoL nightmare. Having your choice of kit so heavily restricted based on what you can do as a jungler is really unfortunate, and you can feel shoehorned into the wrong pick sometimes. Especially when you're looking for a specific upgrade. Forcing ganks on bad lanes as a jungler instead of helping out the team is REALLY poor mechanics. Furthermore if you're a laner that choice is effectively not even a choice. If top and mid lane is melee you are essentially going demon, and if it's ranged you're going shadow. There's an illusion of choice with too many variables and while an interesting idea I think there's a much better way to have gone about this. Also the visual for the meter sucks.

  2. EDIT Upon further testing it does work with chilling smite, it's entirely possible that I had noticed something else during the games, but chilling smite does activate Kayn's Ultimate.

  3. Ultimate healing has a weird delay on it. When you break the ultimate from Kayn's demon form, there's a short delay from when the damage is done and when the healing is applied, enough that damage over time effects applied before using the ultimate will kill you before you get the healing. As far as I am aware, there's no visual projectiles that have to reach you like some other champions, so the delay just feels and seems odd.

12 Comments

PhantomGG7/17/2017, 6:47:46 AM1 votes

1-Oh god it's kindred all over again

Penns7/17/2017, 9:14:21 AM1 votes

Are you sure about 2.? The reason I go blue smite is that I can instantly ult someone whenever I want o

VelvetCrotch7/17/2017, 10:15:56 AM1 votes

for me sometimes his R doesnt get off and his e just bugs me too early out of walls (or maybe i cant use his e well enough idk)

Stars Shaper7/17/2017, 10:42:29 PM1 votes
  1. From my testing, you can collect the essences from whoever you want, you unlock the form based on which essence brought you to fill the bar.

  2. I think it's poor wording from the Ult tooltip. I think that it refers to the damage dealt directly by the champion, you should test it with ignite and see what happens.

  3. I'm not sure I've noticed that but it probably comes from Kayn not being in the field until the "exit" animation ends and then he can heal.

Calabok7/18/2017, 2:46:49 AM1 votes

tryin to say he's under powered? ya need to rethink that

Grjjm Reaper7/18/2017, 2:52:43 AM1 votes

KAYN....IS...NOT....A.....JUNGLER!