Yone vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Yone
based on 11,084 Yone vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yone vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Yone vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Yone
Advice to Win Against Kayn
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.
Yone vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Yone in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Yone vs. Kayn matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kayn..
Yone typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kayn. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yone and Kayn
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Who is Better, Yone or Kayn?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Yone usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kayn, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Yone makes an ok counter to Kayn.
While Yone does have a higher win rate compared to Kayn, when facing one another, Yone also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Yone into Kaynas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yone also has only a small amount of utility and CC, 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Yone vs Kayn matchups, Kayn is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Yone is a decent counter to Kayn. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yone against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yone 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone typically accumulates much more CS relative to Kayn. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Yone versus Kayn build include Infinity Edge, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Yone incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Kayn than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yone had an average winrate of 50.0% battling Kayn with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Kayn as Yone, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Yone vs Kayn face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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