Kayn·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Kayn Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Conqueror as your keystone, followed by Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand 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 Eclipse as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Black Cleaver. For your last 3 items, you should build Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance and finish with Sterak's Gage. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 50.6% winrate over 998 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Kayn Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Conqueror as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Cut Down in the primary tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth 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 Eclipse, which you should build first, followed by Boots as your second item and Serylda's Grudge as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance and Sterak's Gage. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 46.9% win rate over 375 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Bone Plating with Revitalize 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 Black Cleaver as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Spear of Shojin as a third item. You want to finish the build with Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage and Death's Dance. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 49.5% win rate across 95 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Kayn Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection and Relentless Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Transcendence with Manaflow Band as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Spear of Shojin as your first item, then finish Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item, and Manamune as third item. The last 3 options are Serpent's Fang, Serylda's Grudge and Edge of Night. The ability order for this build is W - Q - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 56.4% win rate over 55 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.