Question About Kayn's Passive

The Highest Noon··1 votes·760 views

How exactly is Shadow Assassin/Darkin's progression calculated? I assumed that it worked on a >50 amount of either red or blue orbs to determine which form is first accessed since orbs at early levels are worth a single unit each for whatever damage they apply to, but is that not the case? Judging by the progression bar surrounding Kayn's portrait, I had collected orbs ONLY from damaging ranged champs to >75% of the bar, yet when it filled after a single fight with a melee champ, Darkin was the option I was given. How does that make sense?

If it matters, I did fight that melee champ from full health to their death, and considering they were around level 12 or so--the ranged champs leading to the 75% progression being only levels 1-10--I'm assuming that single fight accumulated so many Darkin orbs that it surpassed the total Shadow Assassin orbs, despite them being >75% of my bar...

That's sensible, but then what's the point of a progression at all when you can have say 99% Shadow Assassin orbs gathered then one continuous fight gathers enough Darkin orbs to completely ignore what you were trying to do?

Is this a bug, or an unintentional mechanic that Riot overlooked?

3 Comments

RazorRaijin1 votes

The transformation progress per orb is based on time in game, 100 orbs at 1 min in is less value than 1 orb at 11 min in. Both forms have separate bars but only the more filled one shows on the UI.

The Highest Noon1 votes

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The transformation progress per orb is based on time in game, 100 orbs at 1 min in is less value than 1 orb at 11 min in. Both forms have separate bars but only the more filled one shows on the UI.

I know, and that's not what I'm talking about.

RazorRaijin1 votes

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I know, and that's not what I'm talking about.

But your asking if its intentional that you get the transformation that you weren't trying to get right? This is the method that the orbs use to give progress to the transformation. So yes its intentional that even if you had 99% progress for one form that if it is that much later in the game that the other form may be triggered instead because of the Time scaling value for the orbs.

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