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Kayn design

Saber Alter 13th·9/22/2019, 6:56:29 PM·1 votes·880 views

There is a little problem with Assassin (blue) Kayn. Assassins: Pyke - stealth; Kha'Zix - stealth; Rengar - stealth; Qiyana - spamming stealths; Akali - stealth; Evelyn stealth; Zed - untargetable; Kayn - has the same ability as Zed but he needs to touch his target to ult and he doesn't have bonus damage like Zed. I hope they change something on Kayn that will make him more aviable to pick and have more potential to carry. In late game if the enemy team has a lot of cc Kayn is just terrible. But what about Pyke - he can execute 5 times; Kha'Zix can oneshot somebody and leave being still invinsible. Qiyana has literally Gnar's ult so better nobody try to run at her and try to stun her. Akali, she has 3 dashes to escape. Evelyn has her ultimate to escape. Zed - his regular combo is made to R somebody and escape easily with his 2nd shadow but Kayn - he does his combo, ult somebody and then gets hit by auto attack or everything that can touch him and he can't go through the wall to escape. His kit feels like not to assassinate champions but roam all over the map. They should make him to feel more like an assassin.

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Nekorus9/22/2019, 7:30:11 PM1 votes

kayn is a diver and divers are supposed to jump in kill someone and hopefully run away but most of the time wont happen. divers are champs like Rengar MonkeyKing Pantheon Vi Diana Camille . divers can usually be played as assassins or bruisers "not all of them can but most could". you can see that easily with kayns red and blue form. his design is supposed to be a diver.

Emperor Talquin9/22/2019, 7:50:05 PM1 votes

Eventually, all assassins will fall off lategame, and Kayn is no exception.

Obviously blue kayn's midgame is his strongest point, and you don't want to be ending a blue kayn game in lategame. Blue kayn is my favourite assassin because he will always proc his passive, unlike kha who can only proc in 1v1's or when the enemy carries position away from teammates which almost never happens in lategame

As for the ult, i think it's a good thing he has to damage a target. Kayn's ult is a lot more powerful than zeds and if a kayn could just press r on a target without applying damage that would be broken.

Right now i'm going dark harvest with sorcery second, taking nullifying orb and trancendence to survive burst more ofter and make up for the last of 40% cdr in my build.

My build is Blue smite warrior, mobis, duskblade, edge of night, guardian angel, lord dominics or mortal reminder and you do crazy damage in lategame with 15+ darkharvest stacks.