Chaaaaaaaarge!!! can be cast at a great range. Try and predict where the enemy team will be by the time you reach them.
The last hit of Violent Tendencies deals more damage than the first three - make sure you hit it!
Kled generates some courage by killing minions, but gets much more from fighting Champions.
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 provided here highlight several strategic Kled against Kayn matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Kled’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kled may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kayn..
Kled often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kayn. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kled usually wins when trying to fight Kayn, with a 51.2% win rate. As a result, Kled makes a good counter to Kayn.
While Kled does have a higher winrate than Kayn, when facing one another, Kled also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kled into Kaynas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kled also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayn. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kled vs Kayn matchups, Kled is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kled is a decent counter to Kayn. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kled against Kayn.
To truly master Kled in order to counter Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kled on average picks up much more CS compared to Kayn. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kled versus Kayn build consist of Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Kled combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Kayn than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kled had an average win rate of 51.2% battling Kayn with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Kayn as Kled, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kled vs Kayn fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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