When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Fiddlesticks against Kayn matchup statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kayn..
Fiddlesticks usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Kayn. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually wins when taking on Kayn, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Fiddlesticks makes a good counter for Kayn.
While Fiddlesticks does have a higher winrate compared to Kayn, when they face off with one another, Fiddlesticks also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Fiddlesticks into Kaynas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayn. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Kayn matchups, Fiddlesticks is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a decent counter to Kayn. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Fiddlesticks against Kayn.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Fiddlesticks to counter Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kayn. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Fiddlesticks versus Kayn build include Cryptbloom, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Kayn than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Kayn as Fiddlesticks, you should use the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Fiddlesticks vs Kayn matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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