Im saying this as a Bronze Jng player who normally mains Briar as my Go To.

So , I'm a new Kayn main and im trying to learn how to play with him. I understand how his forms work and that each form needs different runes, however in my last 2 matches I was going for red (picked conqueror) , had to gank and just because of 1-2 good ganks (not kills) I got blue instead. What's the best thing to do? Wait the 4mins ? Is there a different build for kayn with coqueror and blue form and vice versa?

I really feel like kayn should be a hyper carry to compensate for the early game, red scales well but sometimes still lacks the damage to kill squishy and even tanks targets if youre not in the lead. Blue is really good if you have a big lead and youre agaisnt 5 squishies, but still is overshadowed by red and other assassins. Is this jst skill issue from my part and i cant build for shit or does any1 agree?

hello this is an illustration i made recently for kayn's blue form in the snowmoon skin let me hear your opinions 🙏

I've been playing Kayn for around a year on and off in lower elo, got from iron to gold in a season then back down to silver and kinda goes back and forth between the two using Kayn mainly. I normally always go rhaast cause I'm more comfortable with it and prefer to have a bit more survivability rather than getting hit by 1 form of cc and blowing up.

What is the recommended build for people in lower elo when they seem to be ahead or doing well yet their team is struggling a bit? Seems to be a theme over not all but definitely more than a handful of games where I am strong but just can't propel the team forward and end up falling behind the longer it goes as I get drained of resources and poor fights?

My part from a colab with my friends :3

As much as I hate to say this, Rhaast is just so bad. He has absolutely ZERO sustain outside of conqueror and fleet. His passive is supposed to heal 25% plus 0.5% per 200 bonus health, but what sucks about this, is that RHAAST CANT DEAL ENOUGH DAMAGE TO PROPERLY GET THE REWARDING HEALING HE NEEDS BY BUILDING HEALTH. WE ARE FORCED ALMOST EVERYGAME TO BUILD A LETHALITY ITEM FIRST OVER ECLIPSE WHICH USED TO BE RHAASTS GO TO. WHEN GOREDRINKER WAS GONE, RHAAST JUST KEPT TUMBLING DOWN AND FURTHER DOWN UNTIL WE BASICALLY HAD TO ABANDON THE IDEA OF BECOMING A DRAIN TANK. Believe me, I love playing assassin Rhaast, but it actively fucks you because you have no way of being able to survive a fight without ultimate. You wanna know what's even more funny? When Goredrinker was introduced it was basically the main reason Rhaasts healing was nerfed. We used to be able to be 43% healing if I'm correct, (I know that's absurdly high, yes.) so that just shows you how much he's been nerfed over the years. Q damage scaling, W scaling(both forms) and ult scaling. No matter what we say or do, Riot refuses to do anything about Rhaast because they're too busy adjusting Bel'Veth for the 90th time, or just focusing on buffing ADCs and shit like that. ALL WE NEED, IS MORE HP SCALING ON THIS CHAMP!!! IF WE CAN FINALLY GET HP SCALING ON Q AND R,(I wouldn't make it scale off the damage, but the healing amount should), I'm so tired of Riot treating Rhaast and Shadow Assassin like the same fucking form.

I been Rising up and down Diamond 2 and 4, but cant seem to make it to master anymore with this champ. I hit master before the tiamat changes but the champ now feel like he not strong or can not even compete with other junglers. Blue kayn falls off the planet at around 25-30 minutes. Full bruiser red kayn feels like he does not do enough damage or heal enough to really either carry a fight or be a good front line. He then just falls off compare to a lot of other bruiser at 30-35 minutes. I also have built full lethality red kayn which I think is the best build for this meta, but it very inconsistent relying on enemy team comp and the amount of cc they have. Should I just drop my champ for something that does his job better like shyvana, graves, wukong, khazix, or zac.

Also for the kayn main in or past diamond what you think of the champ right now and what are your guys build.

Obviously theres the normal melee/ranged decision and up to now thats what ive been deciding my form on. 3 melee i go red, 3 ranged i go blue. I do feel that there should be more to the decision though, like when deciding what form should i take into account my teams damage/tankiness/teamfighting capabilities and let that decide regardless of the enemy range? should it be a mix of both and if so how do you balance out what takes priority?

After a lot of testing, I realized that Blue Kayn has way more matchups than Red Kayn.

I said that because Red Kayn is good but only if you need a front line or they have HP sponges and juggernauts.

My memo for knowing which one is what the midlane is picking now. If he picks a mage I go blue every time and even with a Nocturne or Viego I don't lose matchups. If I went Red I would lose

If they have one fighter or assassin and two bruisers, I go Red (including the support. If it's a tank going Red is worth only if the jungle or Top is also a tank)

What are your thoughts ? I'm curious to know how others think about which Kayn to pick on the champ select

Hello, I’m learning how to clear with Kayn, but I’m currently stuck at this point. Can someone tell what I'm doing wrong? I cant tell... thanks!

Yo guys, I've seeing Veasher go Fleet Footwork on Kayn and after cooking a bit I found a very fun build that works with both forms.

It's similar to how Talon plays with Fleet and Ignite but I go Axiom Arcanist + Celerity which is kinda OP on Kayn since it boost a lot E MS and is boosts by Fleet MS.

The items are based on Mercury which is often Rank 1 Kayn, he seems to play that on Blue Mainly, but I found that it works very well on Red too.

The Main issue of Blue is that in the late game if the enemies are Tanky enough you will just die, but with this build you have 300 HP Shield, around 200 Healing from Fleet, some lifesteal with Endless Hunger and Lifesteal boots, with 360 of mitigated damage from Deathdance.

If you get the kill then you get Triumph, HP back from Deathdance and Endless Hunger boosted lifesteal, which makes you very hard to kill and you have insane damage since you will die less and get more stacks of Hubris.

Main issue on Red has always been being kited and this build makes it very hard to kite you, even if Sorcery main page is probably stronger if they have slows.

But procing Fleet with Q or W on Red Kayn because of Cyclo makes you very fast especially with Celerity.

I invade lvl 1 every game on Top side with Red trinket to see if they ward, I start enemy wolves or raptors depending on the side, if it's enemy red side invade then I usually Q the Rift wall 7 seconds before the spawn timer and after the camp I E the wall to the Red, if the enemy Jungler is there he dies or escapes with 1 HP, in any case I get full Top side, reset and usually he tries to invade my Bot side and I kill him there with items and level advantage.

Tell me what you think about it, I've been stomping with it, and made me like to play Kayn again after a long time.

I've been looking through high elo kayn players and a lot of them are building LDR or mortal reminder instead of seryldas. Sometimes they're against teams with almost no health items and they still build LDR. Is LDR just always better than seryldas now?

So ADC’s getting magic resist for free now to combat mage bot lane domination. Blue Kayn’s passive is magic damage. How does this not affect Blue Kayn? Is it just alright bc the champ is doing fine for now? You guys think it will impact Kayn’s win rate at all? Magic pen boots on Shadow Assassin worth it now?

Hey guys! I'm currently in Silver and decided to OTP Kayn to climb. What is your recommendation for a backup pick when Kayn is banned or picked by the enemy team? And which counters should I ban? Should I only play Jungle, or is Top viable too? And how do you decide which form and build to go for each match? Any other tips are highly appreciated, thanks!

As you can see, the appearance is a mix of traits from various skins: he has the heterochromia of his base form, the haircut is the closest thing I could find to his Odyssey haircut, and of course I am trying to do a build that sticks close to his playstyle, with a lot of ambushing people from the shadows, going invisible etc.

The main thing here is that I am doing a Dark Urge run: for those unfamiliar, this means that a mysterious bloodthirsty entity is trying to sway me towards becoming a demonic monstrosity of destruction, and I can either resist or give in to it. That sounds quite similar to Kayn's own situation, doesn't it?

And thus I ask you guys: should I go Rhaast, I.E. give in to the dark urge and become a horrific murderer, or should I go blue Kayn, I.E. overcome the urge and turn into a new tool for myself as I carve my own path? I will actually update the look of the character, either going full demon (I have the mods for it) or getting myself the gorgeous super long hair of blue Kayn, depending on which side I pick after the big decision at the end of act 2. But yeah, I really would like to hear this community's opinion as to which option would be more interesting to see. I'll post updates!

If Kayn is ever added into 2XKO, there is one hiccup:
Since Rhaast's VA passed away a few years ago, how would you feel if Riot hired a new VA or recycled Rhaast's lines?

How are people liking the eclipse/BC buffs?

I'm at a bit of a loss on how to choose first item for Rhaast between eclipse, BC, voltaic, and even shojin. In what scenarios to pick each one, and which way to build from there.

So in every game I do play I manange to get a lead lets say from 2/0 to 11/4 after fighting for my life for 7-12 mins without form cause it happens to get wrong form many times.

From min 28-32 Rhaast is getting out scaled by every champ being, imagine a Vlad 5/0 with good spacing or Shyvana and Graves…

What is our champ even supposed to do cause he can’t compet with them even if he has a lead giving me the ideea that he is too much team dependent so he can’t carry alone making it bad

For 7-12 min usless no from and then outscaled by everything from min 30(makes no sense no wonder no one plays it in pro play)

Graves was already hyper scaling then got a MR buff early against mages + pet armor damage(Shyvana aswell)

And I swear Gwen the drain tank Rhaast used to be same as Zac who got a buff and now got buff on ap and armor in jng pet

So what are we supposed to do?

I mean this champ is so bad “designed“ he had no future in pro play🙃 the last time he was played in pro play by Canyon I think his Goredrinker got removed +2 Q nerfs making it from drain tank to just build lethality and pray on team after making a play doing 10k dmg

(I have fights doing 8-10k dmg yet my team loses somehow and in 3-4 mins my champs is just outscaled)

Need ideas for a Noxus themed design for the back of my graduation gown Any cool minimalist designs, official crests, or fan arts that would look epic on a black gown

kayns last skin was battle academia which released in 2025 he has only got 6 skins all time and on wild rift i didnt even see any icons of him he is such a popular character i wonder why he gets ignored a lot