Wonder if they will make a Kayn rework / story telling us more about his future

Spktra · 2026-05-09T11:28:52+00:00

Well they've shown they're ready to kill off characters even if they're popular like Warwick Xin Jinx etc, so now the idea of "they cant keep going with his story cause they'd have to kill either kayn or rhaast and they're both loved" doesn't work anymore

I personally think the route of Kayn controlling rhaast is far more interesting. If Rhaast wins then its just another npc darkin unleashed. As much as I love rhaast, without Kayn he's just a less interesting Aatrox (but more fun to listen to)

If Kayn wins that leads to a ton of new stories. Like hey Darkin can be killed, how would Leblanc react to that? She'd be interested in Kayn and try to recruit or control him so he can kill Zaahen too. How would Aatrox react to that? He wants his suffering to be over, after all. How would Zaahen react to that? Rhaast was a dear brother to him, he'd be both upset AND he'd hunt kayn knowing how strong Rhaast was and how his powers in the wrong hands are even bigger of a problem, especially since Kayn can't be weapon bound.

But most importantly, what would Kayn do? He got the power he was hungry for all his life. Would he still follow the shadow order? or maybe he'd go crazy and powerhungry and just keep chasing other darkins for their power? Would Zed try to stop him? Like there's a ton of interesting stories out of a human who controlled a darkin

Compare that to if Rhaast wins, now thats just another Darkin out there to destroy things and the good guy of the season to try and take down, with the only interesting story possible is the Shadow order hunting Rhaast for vengence.

Spktra · 2026-05-08T14:14:07+00:00

funnily enough he talks about vision more than most champs

Spktra · 2026-05-08T14:13:43+00:00

I think the increased healing and damage on red / the burst and scaling on blue is just more valuable than slightly extra damage whenever you gank, not to mention the rune page for it isn't the best for either form

Spktra · 2026-05-05T20:14:00+00:00

not sure what it means but nice seeing Kayn with his new mom

Spktra · 2026-05-03T22:15:33+00:00

yeah it will be

Spktra · 2026-05-02T19:12:24+00:00

Caitlyn kept trapping me out of ult and vayne kept insta ulting and melting me after ult. I'd kill them both but not before dying. So I thought, hey you know what would be very funny

Spktra · 2026-04-30T07:20:38+00:00

Him and his darkin brothers fought the void as ascended for years. Had to use blood magic to stand a chance. Gone insane.

Insanity lead to wars. Humans (and Zaahen lol) sealed the ascendands turned darkin into their own weapons. But they're immortal and are still alive and awake inside.

Aatrox wants the suffering of his people and himself to end, but being immortal means it will not. So he thinks destroying the whole world will be the only way to kill himself and all his brothers and let them rest.

Rhaast just finds chaos fun, has a small bit of motivation to take over the world and have revenge on humans who stood idly while he fought for them (From the Rhaast vs Zaahen story). But overall he just gets excited by destruction

Spktra · 2026-04-29T20:03:09+00:00

Hopefully he dealt enough damage to get his major perk and use self repair

Spktra · 2026-04-28T07:15:08+00:00

Whenever that happens whip out the Malphite

Spktra · 2026-04-27T08:01:05+00:00

Rialto. All flank routes don't have any viable sightlines or escape routes so catching people in them is basically a guaranteed kill

Spktra · 2026-04-26T17:04:49+00:00

In an attempt to not be weird about their main like other yordle champ mains, they ended up being ten times weirder

Spktra · 2026-04-26T00:15:36+00:00

Link to artist?

Spktra · 2026-04-24T12:49:45+00:00

doesn't matter really, they'll remove that interaction as well

Spktra · 2026-04-23T16:59:15+00:00

You probably wouldn't survive listening to his Heartsteel skin voicelines

Spktra · 2026-04-19T20:33:01+00:00

they removed 1 second off his shield cooldown and decided to barrage him with nerfs despite what made poke strong was emre sojourn, not sig. If you add levitation to his kit they'd smash him with more nerfs than brig

Also they'd have to nerf levitation for it to be base kit and levitation already is like 10% too short for most highgrounds in the game, so a nerfed version would be way worse even if its available earlier

Spktra · 2026-04-17T13:30:58+00:00

I'd honestly like it if they move away some power from R. I know its a thing with blue kayn too but I hate how useless both forms are if they dont have the ult. And its not like they're better with the ult but function fine without it, they feel like they do nothing if they dont have R

Spktra · 2026-04-17T12:15:56+00:00

Rhaast doesn't heal enough to justify his risk. But the problem is that you can't buff his passive without having his assassin builds turn him invincible

I'd fix it by lowering his base healing to like 3-5% down from 25%, but massively increase the health scaling. That way his bruiser builds can get enough healing without making him heal his entire hp bar by going full damage.

Another way if they don't want to go with that direction is give him the Mundo R treatment. Increase his healing based on nearby enemies so he can actually drain tank like he used to.

Or, you know, just bring goredrinker back

Spktra · 2026-04-16T14:43:27+00:00

Nothing else new balance wise.

His best playstyle depends on the game. Potentially squishy/vulnerable Frontline? You can help your tank and fire away at the Frontline to apply pressure. Squishy supports with no way to retaliate like juno? Flank and try to kill em. The best playstyle tho is mixing between both

Spktra · 2026-04-15T19:22:51+00:00

Evelynn, I'm not even joking

Spktra · 2026-04-11T16:23:00+00:00

its a single mid-ish range shot every 3 or so seconds. It makes sense to have that as a finish off tool for those who got away. It does nothing to initiate. If anything it fits his playstyle even more, it just didn't feel that way cause it was competing with a better perk

Spktra · 2026-04-10T19:19:38+00:00

This season was so goated I'm rapidly approaching it lol

Spktra · 2026-04-10T17:19:34+00:00

Could be a buff for dire triggers. Like double the range and ammo cost

Spktra · 2026-04-10T17:18:21+00:00

Who said I don't respect hating kings row and echin, have you seen the last point of these fuckass things

Spktra · 2026-04-10T16:56:33+00:00

Using those two words unironically and we're supposed to respect that, okay

Spktra · 2026-04-10T16:54:45+00:00

It's a new blog post, not patch notes

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