Kayn Mid (Seriously)

I’ve been thinking for a while now. Kayn is a champ that has good map mobility, versatility, great wave clear and okay sustain.

In jungle he can make use of these great but with the upcoming changes, specifically the role quests (top laners get more exp and get to be lvl 20, mids are the only ones who get tier 3 boots and have perma empowered recall, ADCs get a 7th item, supp gets more gold and a dedicated control ward slot, all those)

I genuinely think this champion has a shot in mid and top but for the sake of this post we’ll be talking about mid lane.

In mid this champ can rotate to every fight reasonably quick and provide decent damage. He’s not the strongest early but he’ll hit six on mid faster than in jungle (this point is even more so emboldened with the top lane changes although I’m not sure if the more exp is innate or locked behind the role quest), he can essentially match the speed of a Talon roam if not faster than a Talon roam.

His survivability is actually higher than I initially thought, your E provides you with decent healing, not lane altering but it’ll help you in a pinch or it’ll add up over multiple uses. Mana might tough early but with tear, PoM or manaflow it’s honestly manageable. Also if you’re against an assassin or a diver jungle, you can just R inside of them and turn the tables completely. Against mages, you can run a dshield/second wind setup and combine it with your E sustain and if you play it correct you should be fine (still gotta test this more though)

If you go blue and you’re even or ahead, you will be at a higher baseline level than jg/adc/supp and once you hit form, if you go blue (imo blue is infinitely better on mid than Rhaast but Rhaast is serviceable) you can go from end of the map to the other, your map presence is crazy and you can focus on macro plays and setting up objs. You spot the adc or someone squishy you can oneshot out of position? Great, get a pick before obj and secure it. Of course you can do the same on jungle but the point is you have a higher baseline of exp and gold and can get to your snowballing faster. Not to mention the empowered recall and access to tier 3 boots giving you so much map tempo.

Although this is all theorycrafting right now and I would love to hear other people’s thoughts on it.