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 emphasize some strategic Renata Glasc vs. Kayn matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between the two. Renata Glasc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Renata Glasc may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Kayn. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Renata Glasc normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than their opponent does. On average, they takes less damage than Kayn. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Renata Glasc usually loses when taking on Kayn, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Renata Glasc makes a poor counter to Kayn.
While Renata Glasc does have a lower winrate than Kayn, when they face off with one another, Renata Glasc also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Renata Glasc into Kaynas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Renata Glasc also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayn. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Renata Glasc vs Kayn matchups, Kayn is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Renata Glasc is a somewhat poor counter for Kayn. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Renata Glasc against Kayn.
If you would like to truly master Renata Glasc in order to counter Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renata Glasc usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Kayn. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Renata Glasc versus Kayn build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Dream Maker. When Renata Glasc used at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better versus Kayn than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Renata Glasc boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when playing against Kayn with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Kayn as Renata Glasc, you should equip the Guardian, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Renata Glasc vs Kayn matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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