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 underscore several critical Qiyana against Kayn counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kayn..
Qiyana typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Kayn. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Qiyana usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Kayn, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Qiyana makes an ok counter to Kayn.
While Qiyana does have a lower winrate than Kayn, when they face off with one another, Qiyana also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Qiyana into Kaynas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Qiyana has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Qiyana 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.
Qiyana is a somewhat poor counter for Kayn. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Qiyana against Kayn.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana to counter Kayn during both the lane 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana typically gets much more CS as Kayn. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require 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, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Qiyana versus Kayn build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Qiyana included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Kayn than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Qiyana boasted an average win rate of 49.9% when countering Kayn with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Kayn as Qiyana, Qiyana players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Qiyana vs Kayn battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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