How to transform faster on Kayn?

bCnUpton·9/28/2019, 7:25:19 AM·1 votes·1,986 views

Literally the title.

I've tried playing Kayn and have been doing terrible on him. his early game is insufferable, while he seems to be a pretty good champ even when slightly behind once the transformation is complete.

I realize that Kayn is supposed to have a very weak early game, in order to compensate for what the forms bring and early game's a race to finally transforming into either red or blue form. My question is - How do you speed it up so you can get out of the miserable base Kayn who gets preyed upon by pretty much every other jungler in the meta?

4 Comments

JustDonnyy9/28/2019, 7:35:13 AM2 votes

Early Ganks. Don't try to all-in champions because like you said yourself, Kayn is very weak early. But since your form is charged based off damage you do to enemy champions, ganking early and hitting enemies with spells and auto's speeds up your form in the fastest way. Attacking Melee champions will charge Red faster, and Attacking ranged champions will charge blue faster.

Super Sandmanne9/28/2019, 7:42:29 AM1 votes

In general you want to gank whichever of your lanes is winning the hardest. Those are the least risky and if you're even by the time you transform then the game is just straight up over.

Metal Janna9/28/2019, 1:51:32 PM1 votes

Had a game yestersay where enemy Kayn ganked bot at 2 minutes before we even finished the first wave to drop Q, then came back three minutes later to blow everything on a suicidal all in under tower. It got him killed of course, but he got to land a few hits and trade one death for his own First Blood, plus 3 summoners from us for 2 from his team (his Flash, support's Ignite). We won eventually, but it definitely wasn't Kayn's fault. Matchmaking gave me the better team. So yeah: early ganks. As long as you pick a lane that doesn't have hard CC you can gank just to harass a little and get some transformation progress. As a side benefit it'll make the enemy team paranoid about moving up, which helps your team back when they want to easier.