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Kayn Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 3,721 gamesUpdated

47.4%win rate0.2%pick5.0%ban

Who counters Kayn

How to build Kayn

Plated Steelcaps→Eclipse→Black Cleaver→Death's Dance

Plated Steelcaps → Eclipse → Black Cleaver → Death's Dance

50.0% win rate 9% of games 230 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteLast StandSorceryAxiom ArcanistTranscendence49% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite63%
Skills
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Reaping Slash
14578
Blade's Reach
29101213
Shadow Step
314151718
Umbral Trespass
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Kayn build →
47.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 47.4% over 9,443 gamesPatch 26.21: 47.4% over 3,721 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
45.7%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
5.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
42.5%under 22 min
50.3%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Kayn champion portraitT KaynvsSion champion portraitT Sion
11 / 6 / 7

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Black Cleaver→Death's Dance→Maw of Malmortius

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Kayn champion portraitT KaynvsVladimir champion portraitT Vladimir
6 / 11 / 4

Build

Mercury's Treads|Eclipse→Sundered Sky→Death's Dance

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Kayn champion portraitT KaynvsYone champion portraitT Yone
5 / 7 / 6

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Eclipse→Death's Dance→Randuin's Omen

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 46.5% win rate · 49% of games · 1,532 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
SorceryAxiom ArcanistTranscendence
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 44.0% win rate · 11% of games · 341 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteLast Stand
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite63%47.9%2,422 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport27%45.2%1,017 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps44%Mercury's Treads22%Ionian Boots of Lucidity17%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 48.0% win rate

Kayn build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Eclipse1st
  2. Black Cleaver2nd
  3. Death's Dance3rd
4% of games that reach a third item take this path52.4% win rate105 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Kayn →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 3,769 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
43% · 48.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
21% · 50.1% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
16% · 47.0% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
9% · 54.3% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 33.5% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
3% · 50.0% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Eclipse›Black Cleaver+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 38.8% win rate · 129 games
  2. Eclipse+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 30.5% win rate · 95 games
  3. Black Cleaver›Eclipse+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 30.8% win rate · 52 games
  4. Eclipse›Black Cleaver›Death's Dance+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 43.8% win rate · 48 games
  5. Eclipse›Black Cleaver+Mercury's Treads1% of games · 31.1% win rate · 45 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Kayn against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Kayn's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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