PCKayn was last buffed in Patch 26.3 (). Across 52 patches, Kayn has received 20 buffs, 11 nerfs, 20 adjustments since release in Patch 7.14.
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Blue Kayn specifically became much weaker in the new season and we'd like to fix that with some direct buffs. There's not much fancy here except that as an assassin, he should be lethal when fighting up close and personal with his targets. As a reminder, Slayer Kayn replaces his Q when transformed.
Reaping Slash
- Base damage increased to 75/105/135/165/195 from 75/100/125/150/175.
Umbral Trespass
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the Darkin variant would fail to heal him if his target died at specific times during the ability.
- Bug Fix: Added base damage to the level-up tooltip to the Darkin variant.
Shadow Assassin Kayn is a bit too good at taking down his targets at the moment so we're here this patch to give them a fighting chance. We don't want Rhaast to be caught in the crossfire of these nerfs so we're taking aim at some of Blue Kayn's assassin-specific damage that often comes in the form of W poke from the fog of war.
The Darkin Scythe
- Shadow Assassin bonus damage reduced to 20 to 40% (based on level) from 25 to 45% (based on level).
Q and W mana costs decreased.
Reaping Slash
- Mana cost reduced to 40 from 50.
Blade's Reach
- Mana cost reduced to 40/45/50/55/60 from 60/65/70/75/80.
Umbral Trespass
- Bug Fix: No longer still applies its exit effect to the target if his False Life triggers during it.
Q damage increased.
Reaping Slash
- Base damage per hit increased to 75/100/125/150/175 from 75/95/115/135/155.
Increased Passive damage at lower levels.
The Darkin Scythe
- Shadow Assassin bonus damage increased to 25 to 45% (based on level) from 15 to 45% (based on level).
Q Damage increased.
Reaping Slash
- Bonus AD ratio per hit increased to 85% bonus AD from 80%.
- Total bonus AD ratio increased to 170% bonus AD from 160%.
Darkin Q damage increased, Q animation now prevents use of item actives. Shadow Assassin R damage decreased.
Reaping Slash
- Darkin health ratio increased to 6% of target's maximum health from 5%.
- New Effect: Item actives are now locked out while casting.
Umbral Trespass
- Bonus AD ratio reduced to 150% bonus AD from 175%.
Passive Darkin healing increased. R Darkin healing increased.
The Darkin Scythe
- New Effect: Darkin healing now scales with 0.5% per 100 bonus health.
Umbral Trespass
- Darkin heal increased to 75% of damage amount from 65%.
- Base heal increased to 11.25% of the target's maximum health from 9.75%
- Heal bonus AD ratio increased to 7.5% per 100 bonus AD from 6.5%.
The Darkin Scythe
- Removed: Damage instances dealt by Summon Aery no longer spawn orbs for transformation progress.
Umbral Trespass
- Bug Fix: Darkin version's heal is now granted automatically if the unit dies during the channel.
Passive Darkin healing adjusted. Darkin R damage decreased.
The Darkin Scythe
- Darkin healing changed to 25% of damage dealt at all levels from 20 to 30% (based on level).
Umbral Trespass
- Darkin damage bonus AD ratio reduced to 10% per bonus AD from 13%.
- Darkin heal bonus AD ratio reduced to 6.5% per 100 bonus AD from 8.45%.
W AD ratio decreased.
The Darkin Scythe
- New Effect: Now fully restores his health and mana upon transforming. Does not apply in ARAM.
Blade's Reach
- Bonus AD ratio reduced to 110% bonus AD from 130%.
E Shadow Assassin bonus move speed decreased, cooldown increased.
Shadow Step
- Shadow Assassin cooldown increased to 10 seconds from 8.
- Shadow Assassin bonus movement speed reduced to 70% from 80%.
Passive Shadow Assassin damage increased. Q AD scaling increased.
The Darkin Scythe
- Shadow Assassin bonus damage increased to 15 to 45% (based on level) from 13 to 40% (based on level).
Reaping Slash
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 80% bonus AD from 65%.
- Total bonus AD ratio increased to 160% bonus AD from 130%.
Passive Shadow Assassin bonus damage increased. E heal AD ratio increased.
The Darkin Scythe
- Shadow Assassin bonus damage increased to 13 to 39.996% (based on level) from 9.3 to 31.4% (based on level).
- The previous values were intended to be 8 to 30.1% (based on level), but were greater in effect.
Shadow Step
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 45% bonus AD from 35% bonus AD.
Darkin form Q bonus AD scaling decreased.
Reaping Slash
- Darkin bonus AD ratio reduced to 3.5% per 100 bonus AD from 5%.
Health growth increased. Passive Rhaast healing based on damage dealt decreased.
Stats
- Health growth increased to 109 from 99.
The Darkin Scythe
- Darkin heal reduced to 20 to 30% (based on level) from 25 to 35% (based on level).
The Darkin Scythe
- Bug Fix: Damage instances dealt by First Strike no longer spawn orbs for transformation progress.
Q damage decreased in Darkin form.
Reaping Slash
- Darkin bonus AD ratio reduced to 5% per 100 bonus AD from 5.5%.
Stats
- Base health increased to 655 from 585.
- Health growth increased to 99 from 85.
- Armor growth increased to 4.5 from 3.3.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
The Darkin Scythe
- Darkin healing reduced to 25 to 35% (based on level) from 30 to 40% (based on level).
Shadow Step
- Base heal reduced to 90/100/110/120/130 from 100/115/130/145/160.
- Bonus AD ratio reduced to 35% bonus AD from 40%.
Umbral Trespass
- Darkin base heal reduced to 9.75% of the target's maximum health from 10.5%.
- Darkin heal bonus AD ratio reduced to 8.45% per 100 bonus AD from 9.1%.
The Darkin Scythe
- Bug Fix: Now properly displays its transformation status in the allied chat when the portrait is pinged.
Darkin Q damage ratio increased. Darkin R target max health damage ratio increased.
Reaping Slash
- Darkin bonus AD ratio increased to 5.5% per 100 bonus AD from 4%.
Umbral Trespass
- Darkin base damage increased to 15% of target's maximum health from 10%.
- Darkin base heal increased to 10.5% of target's maximum health from 7%.
Blade's Reach
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Shadow Assassin would only receive half of local tower gold if his living shadow was active and in range.
Assassin Kayn passive damage decreased.
The Darkin Scythe
- Shadow Assassin bonus damage reduced to 8 to 30% (based on level) from 12 to 44% (based on level).
The Darkin Scythe
- Bug Fix: Global transformation SFX now plays for both allies and enemies.
- Bug Fix: Transformation SFX is now stereo for the local player.
Blade's Reach
- Bug Fix: On-hit SFX is now form-specific.
Shadow Step
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the SFX made a popping noise when it looped.
Original
- Bug Fix: Recall SFX is now form-specific.
Odyssey
- Bug Fix: Dance music is now form specific.
W VFX now revealed when in terrain.
Blade's Reach
- Bug Fix: VFX is now revealed when cast within terrain towards enemy champions.
Q Darkin damage modifier increased.
Reaping Slash
- Darkin AD ratio increased to 65% AD from 55% AD.
General
- Undocumented: Kayn's non-classic skins' base-form portraits will no longer appear on the scoreboard for all players.
Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
Base armor decreased. Q base damage decreased; cooldown increased.
Stats
- Base armor reduced to 35 from 38.
Reaping Slash
- Cooldown increased to 7/6.5/6/5.5/5 seconds from 6/5.5/5/4.5/4.
- Base damage reduced to 65/85/105/125/145 from 75/95/115/135/155.
Odyssey
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would expand and shrink when an enemy player highlighted him.
Passive Rhaast heal decreased.
The Darkin Scythe
- Darkin heal reduced to 30 to 40% (based on level) from 34.5 to 43% (based on level).
Q cooldown decreased; bonus damage now applies to minions. W decaying slow increased.
Reaping Slash
- Cooldown reduced to 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 seconds from 7/6.5/6/5.5/5.
- New Effect: Bonus damage now applies to minions.
Blade's Reach
- Slow increased to 90% from 70%.
Passive orb gain speed increased later.
The Darkin Scythe
- Orb gain rate changed to 3 to 10.3938 (based on minutes) from 3/3/10 (at level 0/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13) (based on minutes).
Passive orb gain increased. W slow increased.
The Darkin Scythe
- Orb gain rate changed to 3/3/10 (at level 0/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13) (based on minutes) from 3/6/10 (based on minutes).
Blade's Reach
- Slow strength increased to 70% from 60%.
The Darkin Scythe
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he could select neither form if he died damaging both a ranged and a melee champion when the orb count for both forms were within 8% of each other.
Q damage increased; Rhaast's modified damage ratio increased; bonus damage to monsters decreased.
Reaping Slash
- Base damage increased to 75/95/115/135/155 from 60/80/100/120/140.
- Darkin AD ratio increased to 55% AD from 50% AD.
- Bonus damage against monsters reduced to 40 from 55.
Blade's Reach A
- Bug Fix: Having the living shadow from Shadow Assassin Blade's Reach stand on the Eye of the Herald no longer has that non-champion entity pick it up.
Umbral Trespass
- Bug Fix: Now properly goes on cooldown if the target dies while he has infested them.
Umbral Trespass
- Bug Fix: When reactivated quickly, his model no longer appears before Umbral Trespass completes.
Shadow Step
- New Effect: Shadow Assassin form sets the cooldown to 8 seconds at all ranks.
Transformation rules are smoother and more intuitive.
The Darkin Scythe
- Removed: Damage and takedowns against melee champion dropping red orbs and against ranged champions blue orbs.
- New Effect: Damage and takedowns against enemy champions grants orbs.
- New Effect: Once the bar is filled, if your percentage of damage done against melee champions is higher than your percentage of damage done against ranged champions you gain Rhaast, otherwise you gain Shadow Assassin.
- New Effect: The transformation progress bar now color tints towards the transformation type that's furthest along, becoming deeper blue when Shadow Assassin is far ahead, and deep red for Rhaast.
- New Effect: Can now ping the transform bar to inform allies how far or close Kayn is to transform.
- New Effect: Can now ping that a form is available.
- New Effect: Can now ping that a form is unavailable and the time remaining before it is ready to be activated.
- New Effect: Once a form is unlocked, you can collect orbs from the opposite champion type to reduce the second form's timer by 5 seconds each.
- Total transformation points required increased to 500 from 400.
- New Effect: If when collecting their final transformation points, the two forms are within 8% of each other, the type of champion range you finally hit will determine the transformation.
- Bug Fix: No longer immediately harvests orbs when damaging ranged champions who hadn't yet damaged him. He'll now properly wait until exiting combat.
Reaping Slash
- Bug Fix: Fixed a Shadow Step into basic attack into Reaping Slash bug where, if Shadow Step buff expired during Reaping Slash's cast time (due to the basic attack putting Kayn in combat), Q dealt no damage.
Shadow Step
- New Effect: Can now start Recall during Shadow Step if not inside terrain.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Shadow Step ending due to casting a basic attack would occasionally cut his Reaping Slash attack short and dealing no damage.
Umbral Trespass
- New Effect: Can now emerge from target with a distance below 300 units.
- New Effect: Shadow Assassin Umbral Trespass gains 200 bonus range when emerging from his target.
Soulhunter
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would hear the audio for Highlander forever if he transformed into Rhaast with Master Yi in the game.
The Darkin Scythe
- New Effect: Can now ping the time until other form is available if Kayn's already unlocked a form.
Shadow Step
- Empowered duration increased to 7/7.5/8/8.5/9 seconds from 5/6/7/8/9.
Shadow Step A (Shadow Assassin)
- Bonus movement speed increased to 80% from 70%.
The Darkin Scythe
- Passive points gained based on minutes changed to 2.5/4/7 (at level 0/10/15) (based on minutes) from 0.5 to 15 (based on minutes).
Reaping Slash
- New Effect: Other abilities can now be queued up while casting Q.
Blade's Reach
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 130% bonus AD from 120%.
Umbral Trespass
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 175% bonus AD from 150%.
Stats
- Attack damage growth increased to 3.3 from 2.8.
The Darkin Scythe
- Darkin heal increased to 34.5% to 43% (based on level) from 26% to 43% (based on level).
Reaping Slash
- Base damage increased to 60/80/100/120/140 from 55/75/95/115/135.
Blade's Reach
- Base damage increased to 90/135/180/225/270 from 80/125/10/215/260.
The Darkin Scythe
- Bug Fix: No longer gains transformation progress from ticks of Corrupting Potion, Deathfire Touch, Crest of Cinders, or Challenging Smite. Other periodic effects, such as Ignite, already had no impact on transformation progress.
Blade's Reach
- Bug Fix: Shadow Assassin tooltip for Blade's Reach now displays the proper slow duration, slow value, and bonus attack damage ratio. In-game effects are unchanged.
Umbral Trespass
- Bug Fix: Once again marks targets for Umbral Trespass, even when his damage is completely absorbed by a shield.
Umbral Trespass
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 150% bonus AD from 110%.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Umbral Trespass wasn't making Kayn "unseen" for Duskblade of Draktharr Nightstalker proc.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Shadow Assassin passive wasn't amplifying damage-over-time (ex. Deathfire Touch) or proc (ex. Duskblade of Draktharr) effects.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Shadow Assassin passive triggered against Riposte, Aegis Protection, and Spirit's Refuge even though there's no damage to amplify.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Bear Trap on a Rope ended Umbral Trespass early.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Kayn could cast Umbral Trespass on an enemy he attempted to damage when all of the damage was absorbed by a shield.
Soulhunter
- The Darkin Scythe
- Bug Fix: Orb particles during his passive are now more visible.
Kayn added to League of Legends
The Darkin Scythe
- Innate: Kayn wields an ancient, sentient weapon, that battles with him for control. Dealing damage against champions causes them to drops orbs that are automatically collected upon leaving combat, filling a bar above Kayn's portrait.
- Once the bar is full he can choose to either be overwhelmed by Rhaast or expel him to become the Shadow Assassin, based on whether he has damaged more melee or ranged champions, respectively. Once primed, the other option becomes available after 4 minutes.
- The transformation can only be performed by interacting with their portrait while on the summoning platform, permanently changing their abilities.
- Shadow Assassin: Kayn's basic attacks and abilities deal 12% to 44% (based on level) of post-mitigation damage as bonus magic damage, lasting for 3 seconds upon entering in combat with an enemy champion, refreshing after 8 seconds out of combat with them or by using Umbral Trespass.
- Rhaast: Rhaast heals for 26% to 43% (based on level) of the post-mitigation damage that he deals with spells against enemy champions.
Reaping Slash
- Active: Kayn dashes forward, dealing 55/75/95/115/135 (+ 65% bonus AD) physical damage to all enemies he passes through before flourishing his scythe, dealing the same damage again to surrounding enemies.
- Shadow Assassin: Reaping Slash is unchanged.
- Rhaast: Both instances of Reaping Slash's damage are modified to 50% AD (+ 5% (+ 4% per 100 bonus AD) of target's maximum health) physical damage, capped at 200/250/300/350/400 against monsters.
- Regardless of the form, both instances of Reaping Slash deals 55 bonus damage against monsters.
- Mana Cost: 50
- Cooldown: 7/6.5/6/5.5/5 seconds
Blade's Reach
- Active: After a short delay in which he can't perform any other actions, Kayn performs an upwards sweep with his scythe, dealing 80/125/170/215/260 (+ 120% bonus AD) physical damage to all enemies in a line and slow them by 60%, decaying over 1.5 seconds.
- Shadow Assassin: Blade's Reach's range is increased by 200, deals 10% bonus AD bonus damage and the slow decays over 2 seconds. Additionally, Kayn conjures a living shadow at the casting position to perform Blade's Reach in his stead, allowing Kayn to perform other actions.
- Rhaast: Blade's Reach airborne enemies for 1 second.
- Mana Cost: 60/65/70/75/80
- Cooldown: 13/12/11/10/9 seconds
Shadow Step
- Active: Kayn gains 40% bonus movement speed, is ghosted and can ignore terrain collision for 1.5 seconds. Immobilizing effects will interrupt Shadow Step. Kayn heals himself for 100/115/130/145/160 (+ 40% bonus AD) health upon moving through terrain for the first time and, if he's not in combat with enemy champions, Shadow Step's duration is increased to 5 seconds. Entering combat with a champion after the effect is enhanced reduces the remaining duration to 1.5 seconds.
- Shadow Assassin: Casting Shadow Step removes slow, additionally if Kayn enters terrain at least once, Shadow Step will be improved for the remainder of its duration to grant 70% bonus movement speed and make Kayn immune to slow.
- Rhaast: Shadow Step is unchanged.
- Mana Cost: 90
- Cooldown: 21/19/17/15/13 seconds
Umbral Trespass
- Passive: Kayn basic attacks and abilities against champions apply Umbral Trespass for a few seconds.
- Active: Kayn infests a marked enemy champion for up to 2.5 seconds, true sight and becoming untargetable for the duration. Reactivating Umbral Trespass ends it earlier.
- Upon reactivation or at the end of the duration, Kayn wrenches himself free from their body in the cursor's direction, dealing 150/250/350 (+ 110% bonus AD) physical damage to the target.
- Shadow Assassin: Umbral Trespass gains 200 bonus range and emerging from the target resets The Darkin Scythe A cooldown.
- Rhaast: Umbral Trespass damage is modified to deal 10% (+ 13% per 100 bonus AD) of target's maximum health physical damage, and heals him for 70% of the pre-mitigation damage .
- Mana Cost: 100
- Cooldown: 120/100/80 seconds
