Kayn·Support Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Kayn Support build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Dark Harvest as your keystone, followed by Sudden Impact, Grisly Mementos and Treasure Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Cosmic Insight and Magical Footwear in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Bloodsong as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Youmuu's Ghostblade. For your last 3 items, you should build Hubris, Serylda's Grudge and finish with Opportunity. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 46.3% winrate over 257 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Kayn Support build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Axiom Arcanist with Transcendence in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Bloodsong, which you should build first, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item and Eclipse as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin and Death's Dance. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 41.6% win rate over 250 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Exhaust and Flash as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Axiom Arcanist with Transcendence in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Solstice Sleigh as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Eclipse as a third item. You want to finish the build with Black Cleaver, Opportunity and Youmuu's Ghostblade. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 38.0% win rate across 79 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Kayn Support build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Axiom Arcanist with Transcendence as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Celestial Opposition as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Eclipse as third item. The last 3 options are Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin and Edge of Night. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 40.3% win rate over 77 matches played.

Situational Kayn Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Kayn build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.