Kayn Build

How to play Kayn

Kayn – the Shadow Reaper – is based on our LoL Tier List on patch a S-Tier Jungle champion. Based on ranked matches from summoners with a PLATINUM+ tier, Kayn has a win rate of , a pick rate of , a ban rate of and an average KDA Ratio of , which shows that the Fighter is in an excellent spot in the current meta of season 12. If you want to learn how to play Kayn on your matches, keep in mind that this champion is mechanically advanced to play in LoL. This Kayn guide will give you also an understanding on how to beat Kayn. The upcoming LoL Kayn Jungle Build is the most popular build picked by many Pros.

Pregame Build

In champion select you need to choose your

Kayn runes and summoner spells. The best Kayn Jungle Runes are Inspiration as the primary path and Domination as the secondary path. The most supportive Kayn keystone rune is First Strike. Flash and Smite are the summoner spells, which fits this LoL Kayn Build the most.

Item Build on Kayn

The starter items for the best Kayn Build on patch

are Hailblade, Refillable Potion, and a Stealth Ward as the trinket. 57% of all Kayn Probuilds include Prowler's Claw as the favoured mythic item. As the game progresses, the most popular Kayn items are Prowler's Claw and Umbral Glaive. Ionian Boots of Lucidity are the most bought Kayn boots by Pros. This Kayn Build will immensely increase your chances to gain LP and to climb the leaderboard in LoL.

Kayn Abilities

At the beginning of a match start to skill the ability

Reaping Slash on Kayn. As the match progresses, it is best to maximise Reaping Slash into Blade's Reach and at last Shadow Step. Reaping Slash is a very strong ability of Kayn in order to build up a lead and dominate your opponents. The passive is called The Darkin Scythe and there is no need to set it manually on a Kayn Build.

Biography

A peerless practitioner of lethal shadow magic, Shieda Kayn battles to achieve his true destiny—to one day lead the Order of Shadow into a new era of Ionian supremacy. He wields the sentient darkin weapon Rhaast, undeterred by its creeping corruption of his body and mind. There are only two possible outcomes: either Kayn bends the weapon to his will... or the malevolent blade consumes him completely, paving the way for the destruction of all Runeterra.

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Available Kayn Skins

Besides the Kayn build you can select a skin for Kayn. The best Kayn skins you can find below.

Explore

• Short Story: The Blade of Millennia by Michael McCarthy
  Kayn stood confidently in the shadow of the noxtoraa, surrounded by dead soldiers, and smiled at the irony. These triumphal arches of dark stone were raised to honor the strength of Noxus—to instill fear and to demand fealty from all who passed beneath them. Now this one was a tombstone, a monument to false strength and arrogance, and a symbol of the fallen warriors’ own fear turned against them.
• Short Story: The Lure by Dan Abnett
  Keelo always cried “Surprise!” when he attacked.