How strong is Kayn lorewise?

Raptor·5/21/2018, 8:04:19 PM·3 votes·9,143 views

Ok , so we know that the Darkin are extremely powerful beings, it literally took an alliance between humans and vastaya to try and imprison them, which implies they couldn't kill them outright.

So if Kayn can use shadow magic in order to kill a darkin ( provided that Shadow Assassin Kayn is somewhat canon ) then it's safe to say he's actually pretty impressive for an ordinary human.

He can also seemingly resist Rhaast's corruption and doesn't really look like it's taking a huge toll on him.

The closest thing we can compare him to is Varus who took over two people and they have to work together in order to keep him in check.

We can argue that maybe Varus is simply a stronger Darkin than Rhaast and therefore he's harder to control, but that is unlikely given that Rhaast was second in command, with only Aatrox being stronger than him.

I really hope once we get the Aatrox rework we will also get some new lore about the Darkin race and possibly a story about Kayn.

Until then it's pretty clear he is a rather unique individual ( one of his quotes is literally "There is no one like me" ) and I think Riot did a pretty good job when designing him and his lore.

What do you guys think about this ?

11 Comments

Spideraxe5/21/2018, 8:28:29 PM5 votes

I think Kayn is a relatively powerful person, his boasting definitely holds water in most scenarios but he’s def not up to Zed’s or even Shen’s level I think (maybe Shadow Assassin is). I’d like to think he’d be roughly on the same power levels as Akali, I know CoolRadius would have a field day chatting about those two ninjas he wrote for. Also CoolRadius mentioned he wrote some additional Rhaast lore that should be out soonish

OurLestrade5/21/2018, 9:13:14 PM1 votes

High potential, has the capacity to go beyond any of the Ionian ninjas if he plays his card right which would simultaneously put him over the likes of champions like Xayah and Rakan since they had trouble 2v1-ing Zed in that one video.

Hexs Fortune5/22/2018, 7:29:25 PM1 votes

Canonically does Kayn or Rhaast win?

Pika Fox5/22/2018, 7:34:57 PM1 votes

Weaker than Jax.

RyzeTheSmurfMage5/25/2018, 7:53:17 PM1 votes

Actually the Darkins were defeated by the remaining Ascended in the end. So basically by magic.