nothing beats seeing this jungle-yuumi flank my squishies at a million movement speed, miss W and still 100 to 0 kill with Q+auto, getting duskblade untargetable before disappearing in the walls again and healing from that for some reason. and none of that even adresses his ultimate that answers the question "hey everyone hates master yi Q, can we make that again but on steroids?"

everytime i have a kayn on my team i swear he just feeds BUT ON THE ENEMY TEAM NOOOO HE IS A KILLING MACHINE

You forgot to mention his W having a 90% decaying slow, and Rhaast still has that slow on top off the knock-up 😂🤦‍♂️

I could live with kayn a lot more if the purple builds weren't so wildly effective.

Even in Gold, Kayn is my permaban. Not because the champions I play can’t deal with him, (quite the contrary, I can deal with him quite well,) but because I don’t trust my allies to not constantly overextend and hand him free kills, or at the very least free souls.

Kayn is powerful, broken sometimes, but I never hated going against him, I never wanted to dodge or sighed when one was on the enemy team

For some reason, after I take a couple months off League (which I do from time to time for my mental) Kayn is always the champion to bring me back. I don't even like jungle, but I just get this itch to play Kayn. Thanks for finally articulating why for me

The magic damage of blue Kayn is post mitigation, meaning armour already mitigates it once.

The trick to beating kayn imo is either goin a hypercarry that beats him early and outscales him late (bel, yi, etc) or goin someone that will give him the opposite orbs that he'd want for ur team (ie. U have a tanky team so u go kindred or graves so he gets blue)

Kayn is just a safe pick, because if let's say you want to play a more standard jg, that just happens to get banned, go Kayn if nothing else comes into mind. Then when the game starts, you can just try to look what your team needs and do just that

I asked for this video a longgg time ago hahahhaha, just happy to see it finally being made! Congrats on the channel and video!

Do you plan to do a video covering mythics, their history, and why they are being ultimately removed from the game?

Its a testement to Vars' skill that I watch his videos despite having quit League years ago and any attempt to return results in unyielding rage

When I played League I looooved Kayn. You nailed it when you said Kayn’s freedom is a big reason he’s so popular. Speeding through the jungle in a straight fucking line will always be hilarious to me. I am also a fan of Robbie, his voice actor!

As a kayn main, we need to have an honest conversation about this mans clear speed, it's fast AF

Gonna give my own prediction before watching the video: Because he is a character who can travel inside walls in a game where the amount of mobility you have determines if you are bottom or top tier.

I remember when it was meta on Kayn to go blue with sorc shoes XD

Well that explains one game my friends and I had. Where we were winning, and then about the 16-18 minute mark enemy team was making a strong comeback with Cho'gath and Kayn duoing every lane until one of the other got to kill and then moving to the next lane

I remember trying league for the first time and playing Ahri, not long after that, Kayn was on rotation and I decided to try him out, I immediately knew jg was the role for me, heck I immediately knew league was for me. Been following Vars for years now, needless to say I watched this whole video with a smile on my face. Now if only riot gave me more kayn skins.

I've waited so long for this day. I'm so happy ty

I'm not gonna lie, I can't bring myself to hate Kayn because he's just really fun to play.

I mastery 5 him in one week when he lauched but he was so weak early on, that i had the same feeling as that of kayle, that you are not a champion until trabsforming, kayle's range used to be 11 and kayn in 13 was a good game where i focused on ganking I've picked him back recently and oh boy are the buffs are noticiable, you are indeed a champ before transforming, the transformation just accentuates how much of a champion you are

Make a video series about each servers of league, idk what the topic would be but that would be funny

Tis a shame that he wont get that many skins cuz you have to create 3 skins for one champ everytime. Also his shadow step is very broken

Best Kayn on EUNE server here. Great video! :D

Yesterday I jsut began palying Kayn after a long while of playing extreme offmeta to take a break. I play kayn in mid now and always go blue form, its crazy how good he is at roaming and how fast he clears waves

MY BOI, finally gets this video

persona 4 music in a vars video goes hard

I heard background music after closing persona 4 and thought that i finally got insane

Kayn's been in the game for 6 years already and he remains my first choice to ban throught all this time. It's so obnoxious to play against, knowing he can approach you from literally any angle.

You forgot to mention his Passive on shadow assasin resets when after ulting. So you can kill 2 squishies with it :D

As a formor league player and most role player i had rank 7 kayn along other junglers, he was just too good. I won my first clash tournament years ago using him in 2 out of 3 games. So i agree wholeheartedly

You have such a nice vioce. I love it!

Idk, I bullied so much Kayn with my Poppy jungle that I don't feel like its a strong champion tbh. I surely give them some free stacks, but they end up so behind, that I either one shot them myself if they go blue or my team one shots them if they choose red. And even if they are somehow fed because my team fed him, I will still prevent him to do anything just by existing and pressing E and W. So yeah, I am kinda happy when I am against a Kayn. Some players even pick him after I picked Poppy, which makes me always happy

My main problem with red kayn is his scaling, that guy can have like 300ad which is alright whatever, but that 300 ad translates to a TON of % MAX hp damage on his abilities which in turns means he heals for a gorillon.

as someone who played kayn since release, seeing him grow into an absolute menace was so infuriating because you basically get your powerspike for free you could get orbs in your sleep and get form by 8 minutes, while way before it was amazing to get form at 12 min but no, everytime they buff him they give him like 50% more power until the fucking item rework broke the dam and now he's this monster that virtually can't be shut down

I like your soft yet purposeful voice. It really helps drive your points through. This may be a weird or creepy thing to comment but I mean it as a genuine compliment

I REALLY hated him when dusk blade empowered your auto attacks he would run at you with the E and ghost blade movement speed, if he at least touchs you with that auto with a duskblade proc which both are counted towards his passive, he can miss both W and Q but autos you one more time then ult to refresh his passive+ refresh duskblade + proc electrocute, the dumb part is that all of those are point and click, so the whole 2 skill shots that you are worrying about dodging ... yeah they dont matter, AA+ult+AA = 100 to 0

I'd like to see the pre mythic item ravenous hydra again. That shit worked ridiculously well with kayn

been maining him since he came out :D i love kayn so much

Duskblade changes pushed Kayn over the edge. He is now my permaban. I recently went 18/5 but lost game to blue Kayn who kept one shotting my idiot team mates through walls. One thing you missed: Kayn can proc his ult from Smite alone. He doesn't have to hit anything before that.

Does anyone know what the BGM to this video is? It's so familiar...

I only like to watch Vars videos to see him cry, thanks for another banger

Kayn lies in the batch off champions i like to call: "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???"

can you do a riven why everyone plays its gonna be awesome !!

Easy solution, make Kayn lose like 10% of his current orb ammount on death. This way Kayn can still get his 3500 gold efficiency transformation worth of stats early in the game if he is ahead, but you actually have counterplay windows and putting him behind is ACTUALLY worth it.

He is very very easy to execute with, you have to genuinely try to miss his Q and W's in a fight. But the biggest issue with him at the moment purely stems from itemization. Build bruiser on blue, have 500 ad, 4000 hp, 100 ability haste, and able to carve through tanks and squishies alike. Build lethality on red, you are still tanky af, and your Q still does about 80% of a squishy's max hp on hitting both instances. At this point its not a matter of 'do you want assassin or bruiser'; you are a bruiser, and your choice is 'healing or mobility' since the same builds can work with both and kill all targets just as effectively.

And we didn't even talk about the fact that blue kayn is incredible at zoning and poking since he can just perma stay in wall in late and his w has pretty solid range. You can do whatever you want with him if you know how

Thanks!

the guy dominates my low elo matches too lol, teammates don’t watch where minimap at all so his free ganks are even freer. Him and Shaco are always my bans

I been waiting for this for years now I’m so old now

Kayn is the champion that i had a genuine connection with ever since he came out. Bro got me from bronze all the way up to diamond. When you find that champ you love. The game completely changes

I have always felt like kayn has it great in nearly every area, even down to champion select since he's very easy to blind pick with (how you do counter pick kayn?). I don't' feel kayn has one "omg so broken" ability but all his abilitys are high value and consistent.

Kayn really isn’t all that hard to counter. He only scales well if he snowballs so the easiest way to counter him is just perma invade. He can’t play the game from behind. Also just be aware of your surroundings. Look for the little glowing orb on the wall and simply walk away from it. Pre form he doesn’t have that much chase potential if he doesn’t get the jump on you.

did a no transform challenge on kayn :) ... still won

First strike does gives you more orbs right? I don't hate him tho xd

i mean he is a "run into your face and dip" jungle so you could say he is the singed version of jungle tbh

Kayn is fun as hell to play. I don't really jungle much but if I do I either Kayn, Amumu, or Maokai

I love kayn, but I'll be honest, red kayn is very undertuned right now, he is supposed to be the anti tank version of kayn but I feel that he doesn't do that much damage to tanks, they gutted his healing, going from 30% to 20-25% and percent health damage which I don't remember the specifics, his ult now has reduced healing and damage which means that even if you ult a tank with a lot of hp you won't restore back to full, red kayn is all about team fighting and choosing the right target to ult to essentially get a second health bar with the healing you have to get back to fighting instantly, but right now you'll ult and maybe recover half of your hp. Red kayn is so mid right now to the point where I started trying out viego, first timing btw and I was legit surprised how I was in auto piloting most of the game and still performing pretty well Blue kayn in at a pretty good spot right now, he can change the flow of the game, but if you don't know how to position you won't do anything, I lost a game because I didn't respect the enemy qiyana and literally died 4 times in a row as soon as I stepped out of base, but I've won many games because I've avoided fights unless I know I can get in and get out without dying Red kayn however literally feels useless right now to the point where if you're not ahead from the start you'll probably stay behind, additionally, at least the kayn content creators I see, most of them use blue form because it's just better right now

as a Kayn main who now has over 220k points on him. This is the best champion in league of legends.

Cool vid :)

Full lethality Red Kayn is super fun and broken

When Canyon picked it during Worlds, it was PEAK Kayn gameplay

I remember when kayn was in the in-between of no one and everyone plays Playing kayn mid during those times *cough* before mythics *cough* was alot of fun especially since he was basically a nice sidegrade to talon when you play kayn mid

kayn is like the yone of the jungle to me, if you know your combos and your matchups well you can outplay almost anything

As a kayn main there's a lot of truth to this video couple things I'd point out though. 1. You can reasonably assume which form kayn is going based off runes so he's not like this "i dont know what form hes going to go im counterpicking myself" I thought that was kind of overblown 2. His early form aside from his clearspeed is pretty weak you lose to just about everything and his ganks while unpredictable are a lot weaker than you made it seem he has trouble sticking to targets and dealing consistent damage in his base form so he's basically a glorified vulture in the earlygame. 3. I think red kayn especially in todays game is soooo much weaker than you're making him out to be. I recently started playing jarvan and I was shocked that jarvans base kit is basically just red kayn but without the weak earlygame. And he got nerfed too! so like yeah its powerful but relative to jarvan its honestly almost never worth picking red form because you're waiting till lvl 8 to become a jarvan that heals off damage like eh. Overall though, banger video I love that blue kayn has put the fear of god into many players lmao.

i once played him top, went 1/8, got blue Form, won the game with 23/9 and a penta xD the form powerspike is ridiculous

I picked up the jungle role in S12 and 13 because I realized that Kayn is the champion in League that best encompasses the 2 of the 3 playstyles I tend to gravitate to in games. Even when I was a laner, he wasn't necessarily a pick or ban for me. I was perfectly content going against Kayn compared to someone like Gangplank, Fiora or Gragas who are just infuriating to face. There is one thing that I have to add to Kayn's broken design that I notice as a Kayn main. First, let me preface it by saying that, at the moment as of 13.21, Kayn is probably in the most precarious position he's been in since launch. Repetitive nerfs of his transformed abilities, albeit warranted, have made his base form rather bad once again. As a jungler who wants to skirmish, he is somewhat dependent on jungle matchup or teamates to get it. He can't really be the one initiating ganks because his threat level is low and depending on enemy positioning, they can decide to simply not engage with you. That brings me to the flaw in his design, one that I saw most prominently displayed and exposed to everyone when he was picked at Worlds 2022 by Canyon. The only real way to counter him is to refuse to engage with him for the longest time possible. If you avoid him, refuse to fight him and just go around collecting leads for your team, Kayn won't get his form until after 15 to 17min and will simply lose the game. This is especially true at the moment which is why the Aery rune has seen adoption, in part due to Karasmai, as a way to patch how coinflippy Kayn is atm. Games currently have you attain form at 6-7min or at 15-17min, depending on a myriad of factors and Aery softens that curve quite a bit. Thirdly. I believe Kayn was one of the champions that suffered the most nerfs not necessarily due to his kit scaling but how well it synergized with the most popular mythic items. I detest how Riot has approached balance since the mythic item rework in which they would see all these problematic champions I.E.: Aatrox, Fiora, Kayn, Kha'zix; etc. etc. and instead of nerfing the items they were abusing: Goredrinker, Death's Dance, Prowler's etc. etc. they would either hit only one of the champions or, worse, double dip. There were so many patches in which Kayn items were nerfed due to Riot not wishing to nerf, as an example, Aatrox, but they would also hit Rhaast for example or base Kayn. While deserved, it just really speaks to how much of a symptom of mythics Kayn's current infamy is.

all you have to do is press W Q passive does the job for you then you ult for the satisfaction

I hear Yukiko’s Castle theme

I am a filthy kayn aatrox main but I almost never go blue, I play kayn because he is darkin and I love the drain tank power fantasy. That’s why I go gore on both champs in nearly every game

I haven't played against Kayn in 2 years and I don't regret it. :)

idk I always play kindred kayn feels like a piece of cake ngl

I hate that his e heals. So many times I body one, they run into the walls and comeback with near full health. His ult also allows him to like Kha where they use it to refresh cooldowns

imo kayn was the moment champion design went wrong. to me the line between old school design philosophy and 200 years is a line of pre kayn and post kayn.

I think the thing that I hate most about Kayn is I can dodge everything, space him so he can’t auto me and all he has to do is smite and he can still ult me. He waits for his cool downs and now I can’t dodge anything and so he one shots me by missing everything on the engage

I kayn was the first champ i sat and learned and helped me understand jungle

fastest i've been able to transform is 6:40ish and even that can be driven down to 6:30. that is pretty darn insane

First Zed, then Kayn, now we definitely need Syndra next :>

I love playing kayn i just hate that u have to fight certain champions to earn the form u want. My bot lane mad cause im tryna go red and they opponents are ranged. Or if i wanna go blue top gets mad cause i hardly gank them.

I've been a kayn main for the better part of 3-4 years (not consistently, I've been quitting and relapsing league for a while now) and I loved him from the moment I picked him up.

This wasnt a why everyone plays Kayn video, this was just a kayn rant.

They made it so it’s a win win for Kayne and a lose lose for the opponent

I still think his wallwalk should go on a 2 second cd if he is damaged by an enemy champion.

Kayn: 7.2% pick rate Vars: why everybody plays kayn Orianna: 7.6% pick rate Vars: why nobody plays orianna

Dude runs toward ur team, kills someone, goes untargetable, and waits to do it again....

i remember mainin kayn before he became popular, simple times

A couples of days ago i played vs a Blue Kayn full assasin build. I was Samira, so I play around that by buying Frozen Heart and G.A (once the passive was used changed it to Dead Man's Plate). When he dind't oneshot me being at 270 armor and 2800 heatlh (+ shieldbow) he proceed to call my champion "OP adc tank" and cried for the rest of the game xD. Kayn players have the mindset of "If I can't oneshot someone, they are OP" which speaks volumes about the champ.

My opinion in Kayn its that the champion takes zero skill, and i love his goofy ass

Vars man when is the ekko video?

I might as well have a 100% Ban rate on Kayn cause as a support , I ward 2 places , I don't wanna ward the back bush as well and fear for my life if I don't have 3 wards up at the same time to know if Kayn is coming , I can barely keep up 2

If not my disapproval for Akali, i would permaban Kayn. I have a really bad luck with teammates playing Kayn who go for kills and totaly forget what their role is all about

Wait...didnt Kayn got his both forms nerfed like 1 patch ago...?

I remember when riot made Talon a jungler and everyone hate him because he can just ignore the path, just like kayn, but at least he "consume" one wall to do that, Kayn can do that always. And in the end he just got kick out of Jg, goddamit i hated that

i played against kayn ONCE, ever since then hes sure as hell to get banned from me when im going jungle 💀

Broken but actually hard to play is the best way to describe kayn, and riot also has this weird love hate relationship with him where if he's below 50% wr they buff him and then nerf him 4 PATCHES IN A ROW

When me and my buddies play, our jg main buddy plays Kayn when he feels like turning off his brain to turbo farm or constantly fight when it is CONVENIENT for him. Kayn is just that type of bs lol.

I played him a lot back when Kayn wasn't great and as Shadow Assassin and peopel complained he's only good at Rhaast Then I killed the enemy in two different lanes

The reason why I play kayn is because NOTHING beats Q’ing into a raptor pit THATS Euphoria on demand.

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