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r/KaynMains•
AccelerationGate

Quistion for the boys

Hear me out. I'm not flaming.

IMO Kayn is a difficult champion to pull off. Usually, such champions have sub-50% winrates and only those who've mastered them can pull off what's required to maintain a higher than 50% winrate. Now, here's why Kayn is an anomaly. According to champion.gg, despite being the 2nd most popular Jungler with a 12.06% play rate, Kayn has a very respectable 50.92% winrate. You'd think that with all the people playing him, there would be a lot of low ranked players sucking at him and inting, bringing the average down. Yet that's not the case. This suggests that either Kayn is too easy to pull off, or he's too strong right now.

What do y'all think? Is he too strong in his current state?

Posted Sep 19, 2018, 5:13 PM UTC

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unstablecrocodile•

No, I think it’s very easy to get behind as kayn and that’s not a good place to be as an assassin or a front liner.

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Pleborruss•

He is quite a simplistic champion (though the small things such as walling your q to farm and where you can E is something that takes longer to learn) giving him a fair chance to succeed. Kayns mid-game is very strong, however hes early game is quite trash (except for counter jungling). Maybe most players dont know how to abuse hes weakness and therefore he can get away with a high winrate.

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AccelerationGateOP•

Yeah, this is what I meant. Not difficult in terms of ability usage. He has a unique playstyle with approaching from unique angles, chain combos and kiting with untargetability. But "Difficult to pull off" as in he's extremely weak early and shouldn't really be allowed to take over when he's half a champion for ~12 minutes.

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ShinggoLu•

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcRkPh0wFLo&t=91s

really good new guide for 8.18

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Yung_Kappa•

Kayn is easy bruh just hit your Ws. Just because he looks like another edgy Zed/Yasuo doesn't mean he plays like one.

i would say Kayn is in the best spot he has ever been in and it kinda happened indirectly with DH becoming meta but you've still got the wrong stats.

This site is generally regarded as the best for stats. In plat+ Kayn is the 3rd most popular jungler with a 16.9% playrate and his winrate is just below 50% so solidly A tier and a perfectly fine champ. However if you move to diamond+ his playrate goes down to 13.9% and his winrate to just below 49%.

So I would say he's just balanced now and still slightly weak for high elo and useless in pro play but he's very good in low elo bronze-gold right now so I have to be fine with that or he'll get Yoricked.

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AccelerationGateOP•

No fucking clue how that typo got in the title :/

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