The soulhunter Kayn skin is bland, and while I'm still trying to learn him, he seems really weak. His cooldowns are way too long and his ult does about zero damage unless you go assassin. I'm giving soulhunter Kayn a rating of SAD.
Shmeeve3 votesKayn is actually very good and fun to play, let me give you a few tips. Base kayn sucks, so you NEED to get a form. So I won't give any tips on the base form just keep hitting champs to get orbs.
He has a couple key items I recommend for him in either form, 
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Rhaast: 1 - Build him a tank with warmogs and sterraks, and to make him a tank with tanks for wheels, give him a death's dance, BORK, and black cleaver. 2 - his q you should max first, it can do a lot of damage even towards tanks. 3 - his w should be maxed second, it does a fairly decent amount of damage with a serious knockup. 4 - his e should be maxed last, it's still fairly decent of an ability, but you want to have as much bruising as possible. 5 - his ult isn't mean to be a "massive damage nuke" it's supposed to be a way to regain health (mostly if you do it on tanks) and to wait for cooldowns a little longer. 6 - he can be a massive god in a team fight because of his knockup, and if you build him a tank and engage with also your ultimate, you give no cheese about the enemy team. 7 - if you also have the build I mentioned on #1, give him gargoyles to make him even more hard to deal with in a team fight. 8 - this guy can hard counter some champions that are very powerful in team fights, such as yasuo, tryndamere, and so on. HE EATS THEM ALL FOR BEKFAST
Shadow Assassin: 1 - always build duskblade and youmuu's, lethality is a large part on this form. 2 - you may also want to build boots of mobility to do a swift engage. 3 - to make tanks cry, give him BORK and black cleaver. 4 - max your w first since it's way more useful in the damage compartment in this form than the q. 5 - max your q second the damage is still good. 6 - max your e last yet again. 7 - your ult you should use after 3 seconds, which is the duration of your passive in this form. Because it resets your passive plus it does a lot of damage. 8 - when you are shadow assassin, you are most effective with doing quick kills to targets that are alone.
Dope Solo1 votesThanks, I'll try it out.
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Kayn is actually very good and fun to play, let me give you a few tips. Base kayn sucks, so you NEED to get a form. So I won't give any tips on the base form just keep hitting champs to get orbs.
He has a couple key items I recommend for him in either form,
Rhaast: 1 - Build him a tank with warmogs and sterraks, and to make him a tank with tanks for wheels, give him a death's dance, BORK, and black cleaver. 2 - his q you should max first, it can do a lot of damage even towards tanks. 3 - his w should be maxed second, it does a fairly decent amount of damage with a serious knockup. 4 - his e should be maxed last, it's still fairly decent of an ability, but you want to have as much bruising as possible. 5 - his ult isn't mean to be a "massive damage nuke" it's supposed to be a way to regain health (mostly if you do it on tanks) and to wait for cooldowns a little longer. 6 - he can be a massive god in a team fight because of his knockup, and if you build him a tank and engage with also your ultimate, you give no cheese about the enemy team. 7 - if you also have the build I mentioned on #1, give him gargoyles to make him even more hard to deal with in a team fight. 8 - this guy can hard counter some champions that are very powerful in team fights, such as yasuo, tryndamere, and so on. HE EATS THEM ALL FOR BEKFAST
Shadow Assassin: 1 - always build duskblade and youmuu's, lethality is a large part on this form. 2 - you may also want to build boots of mobility to do a swift engage. 3 - to make tanks cry, give him BORK and black cleaver. 4 - max your w first since it's way more useful in the damage compartment in this form than the q. 5 - max your q second the damage is still good. 6 - max your e last yet again. 7 - your ult you should use after 3 seconds, which is the duration of your passive in this form. Because it resets your passive plus it does a lot of damage. 8 - when you are shadow assassin, you are most effective with doing quick kills to targets that are alone.
Why would you ever build bork on Kayn? Neither form cares about attack speed or on hit damage. You shouldn't be building black cleaver on shadow assassin either. Either you or your target will be dead before you can apply full stacks of cleaver as an assassin. There is no reason for you to be building against tanks as shadow assassin, you'll never be able to "make them cry" regardless of what you build. Being shadow assassin means that the enemy team shouldn't have more than 1 tank in the first place, and you should be avoiding that tank when possible.