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Runes: Rhaast tanky

1 2 3 4 5 6

Precision

Conqueror

Triumph

Legend: Tenacity

Last Stand

Resolve

Bone Plating

Revitalize

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

1 2

Summoners (Rhaast)

Challenging Smite

Flash

Items

Rhaast (Red Kayn)

Start (Rhaast)

First back (Rhaast)

Full-Build (Rhaast Anti-AD)

Full-Build (Rhaast Anti-AP)

Full-Build (Rhaast Full-DMG)

Kayn (Blue Kayn)

Start (Blue Kayn)

First back (Blue Kayn)

Full-Build Example (Blue Kayn)

Ability Order Default Kayn abilities update

Kayn Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Nocturne

Extreme

Ban him. When you understand how to play against him let me know it.

Yuumi

Ideal

Perfect, she gives movement speed, healing, cc, and damage. She can also be attached to you while you are using your utlimate!

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Yuumi

Ideal

Perfect, she gives movement speed, healing, cc, and damage. She can also be attached to you while you are using your utlimate!

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Kayn Introduction & About me

Kayn, the shadow reaper

Welcome to my guide on how to play .
This is a very particular champion and one of the most satisfying to play.
In fact, thanks to his passive the darkin scyhthe you can choose between 2 forms.
You can be an or a .

I'm an OTP with 1M points on this champion. I've played for 1 year and I felt in love with this game and with this champion. I aim to become a challenger in my life and to do this I study very much trying to learn something new every day.

Kayn Spells

Reaping Slash
| Cooldown: 7 / 6.5 / 6 / 5.5 / 5 |
dashes then spins his scythe, dealing 75/95/115/135/155 (+65% bonus ) physical damages to enemies he passes through, then deals the damage again to nearby enemies.
Rhaast: Instead deal 65% + 5%(+4% per 100 bonus ) max health physical damage

Blade's reach
| Cooldown: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 |
swipes his scythe upward, dealing 90/135/180/225/270 (+130% bonus ) physical damage and slowing enemies hit by 90% decaying over 1.5s.
Shadow assassin can move while he's using this ability and increases its range.
Rhaast additionally knocks up enemies hit for 1 second

Shadow step
| Cooldown: 21 / 19 / 17 / 15 / 13 |
gains 40% of movement speed, becomes ghosted and can move through terrain for 7 / 7.5 / 8 / 8.5 / 9 seconds. When he first enters terrain, he restores 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 / 130 (+35% bonus ) health.
Being immobilized and spending more than 1.5 consecutive seconds outside of terrain ends this ability early.
Shadow Assassin: Gain 80% movement speed, slow immunity and reduce the cooldown to 8 seconds.

Umbral Trespass
| Cooldown: 120 / 100 / 80 |
Passive: Champion damaged by are marked for 3.15 seconds.
infests a marked enemy, becoming untargetable. After 2.5s or after recasting, bursts out, dealing 150/250/350 (+175% bonus ad) physical damage to the enemy.
Shadow Assassin Increases this ability's range, the distance of 's exit and refreshes the darkin's scythe cooldown on exit.
Rhaast Instead deals 15% (+13% per 100 bonus ad) physical damage and restores 9.75% (+8.45% per 100 bonus ad) health (65% damage amount).

Table of Contents - Nobra

Guide Details

x Intro
x Closing
x Changelog

Champion

x Pros / Cons
x Abilities
x Tips & Tricks

Pre-Game

x Masteries
x Runes
x Team Comp

In-Game

x Items
x Gameplay
x Strategy

Rhaast tanky Runes & Items

PRECISION

RESOLVE

MY PERSONAL OPINION

These are my favourite runes, an evergreen if you are a Rhaast lover, thanks to these runes you will be unkillable.
You can substitute with if you cant gank early and you want to use the advantage in mid/late game.
You can also substitute with if you want to be more tanky. I strongly recommend this option if enemies are full ad or full ap.

USEFUL ITEM OPTIONS

Item description
+10 item haste
+250 health
+80 armor

Active:
UNIQUE – HUMILITY: Unleash a shockwave around you that slows nearby enemies by 99% for 0.25 seconds and reduces their attack damage by 10% and critical strike damage by 20% for 4 seconds (60 second cooldown).

Passive:
UNIQUE – ROCK SOLID: Every incoming instance of post-mitigation Basic Attack.png basic damage is reduced by 5 (+ 3.5 per 1000 maximum health), maximum 40% reduction each.

Personal Advices
is a very good choice if you are against heavy ad champions that build crit items like , , , ecc.

Item description
+400 mana
+20 ability haste
+80 armor

Passive:
UNIQUE - Rock Solid: Reduces incoming damage from basic attacks by up to 7 [+3.5% per 1000 max], capped at 40% of the attack's damage.

UNIQUE - Winter's Caress: Cripples nearby enemies' attack speed by 20% (700 range).

Personal Advices
is a very good choice if you are against heavy ad champions that spam autos like , , , ecc.

Item description
+350 health
+60 armor

Passive:
UNIQUE – THORNS: When struck by a basic attack on-hit, deal 10 (+ 20% bonus armor) magic damage to the attacker and, if they are a champion, inflict them with 25% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds. Immobilizing enemy champions also inflicts them with 40% Grievous Wounds icon.png Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.

Personal Advices
is strongly recommended if you are against ad champions based on healing like , , , ecc.

Item description
+10 ability haste
+40 magic resistence
+450 health
+100% health base regeneration

Passive:
UNIQUE – BOUNDLESS VITALITY: Increases all Heal power icon.png healing and Hybrid resistances icon.png shielding received by 25%.

Personal Advices
I consider a core item, is always useful even if you're not going for the tank build especially if you have a peeler support like , or .

Rhaast Scaling damage Runes & Items

PRECISION

SORCERY

MY PERSONAL OPINION

I don't use these runes often, because my favourite playstyle is tank .
Anyways these runes are still good if you want to play for mid/late game because thanks to and you gain a lot of scaling damage.
If you're confident with the champion pick this runes.

USEFUL ITEM OPTIONS

Item description
+45 attack damage
+30 ability haste
+350 health

Passive:
UNIQUE – CARVE: Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion applies a stack of Carve for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. Each stack reduces the target's armor by 5%, up to 30% at 6 stacks.

Personal Advices
is an evergreen, its stats are broken especially if you are against tanks. If you are against 2 or more tanks also is strongly recommended.

Item description
+55 Attack Damage
+45 armor
+15 ability haste

Passive:
UNIQUE – IGNORE PAIN: Stores 30% / 10% of all post-mitigation damage received (including shields), which is successively taken as damage over time true damage instead, dealing one-third of the stored damage every second.

UNIQUE – DEFY: Champions dying within 3 seconds of damage remove Ignore Pain's remaining damage, and heal you for (+175% bonus) over the duration.

Personal Advices
is a very good choice if you need armor to avoid to be oneshotted but you already have a frontline in your team. This item will grant you heal, armor and damage, broken item when you have to carry the team in fights.

Item description
+55 attack damage
+20 ability haste
+50 magic resistence

Passive:
UNIQUE - LIFELINE: If you would take magic damage that would reduce you below 30% of your maximum health, you first gain a Hybrid resistances shield that absorbs 200 / 150) (+ (225% / 168.75%) bonus AD) magic damage for 5 seconds (75 second cooldown).
UNIQUE: Triggering Lifeline also grants 10% omnivamp for 5 seconds. After 2 seconds into the duration, taking or dealing damage refreshes this effect to 3 seconds.

Personal Advices
has the same goal of , build it if you are against ap champions.

Item description
+40 attack damage
+300 health
+35 magic resistence

Active:
UNIQUE – QUICKSILVER: Removes all Stun icon.png crowd control debuffs (except Airborne icon.png Airborne) from your champion and grants 40% Tenacity icon.png tenacity, 40% Slow immune icon.png slow resist, and Ghost.png ghosting for 3 seconds (90 second cooldown).

Personal Advices
is a good option when you are against champions that has in their kit just 1 spell that stuns like or . In this way you can avoid their full combo.

Rhaast snowballing Runes

PRECISION

INSPIRATION

MY PERSONAL OPINION

If you're ahead, these runes will grant you items before your enemies, use early/mid game advantage. You can change with . Choice is yours.

Rhaast perma-healing Runes & Items

PRECISION

DOMINATION

MY PERSONAL OPINION

If there are a lot of melee enemies, use these runes, you can proc very often and is so useful because you can use goredrinker on multiple enemies. If you want more damage you can also use .

USEFUL ITEM OPTIONS

Item description
+70 attack damage
+20 ability haste
+100% omnivamp

Passive:
UNIQUE – CLEAVE: Damaging basic attacks and ability damage from abilities deal 60% − 12% (based on distance) AD physical damage to other enemies near the target. Can only hit each target once per attack or ability, and may only trigger once every 10 seconds from the same cast.

Personal Advices
is a good choice only if you are snowballing and you want to have fun. Your healing will make you unkillable and the 70 attack damage will grant you a lot of damage. The biggest con are that you dont gain magic resistence or armor.

Assassin Kayn Runes & Items

INSPIRATION

DOMINATION

MY PERSONAL OPINION

unlike many players I am not a lover of the blue form, I still recommend it when you are against squishy enemies. I'm testing both and to understand which is better, at the moment first strike is winning.