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Blue Kayn (Dark Harvest) Guide

Patch 26.19 Diamond+·Difficulty:

This is Blue Kayn, the Dark Harvest assassin. Take Blue when the enemy has two or more squishy targets you can burst; into a tanky team Red is the better form. You poke first and dive second: E through walls to flank, W your target down to half health from the fog, then Flash, Q and R in to finish. Voltaic Cyclosword is your first spike and Serylda's Grudge keeps the burst lethal late. E crosses walls no other jungler can, so check for it before you accept any death.

Runes

Quick Tips

All phases

  • •Your combo is W, attack, Q, R, then wait inside for cooldowns and come out with attack, Q
  • •P adds bonus damage for your first 3 seconds in combat and resets when you leave R, so strike fast
  • •Cast W then Q backwards at once, it procs Sudden Impact and steps you out of their answer
  • •Always attack then Q, the Q cancels the attack animation, while Q first is slower
  • •Q during E extends E even outside a wall, use it to chain from one wall to the next
  • •E lingers outside walls, so use the speed to run down a laner in a gank
  • •E over a wall is your escape, check for it before you accept any death
  • •Into a tanky team with one squishy target, go Red instead, Blue has nobody to burst

Skill Priority

Q
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W
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E
Q
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4
5
W
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3
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E
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2
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Starter Items

Item 1102
Health Potion (no)
Today's Challenge
Early Game

Before 1st item

  • •Full clear first, and Q into a thick wall so both hits land without the long animation
  • •Take E at level two, it crosses walls, so you invade and escape where no other jungler can
  • •Hits on champions build your form, not damage, and a kill counts about three times
  • •Blue comes from hitting ranged champions, so point your early ganks at mid and bot
  • •No form by 10 minutes means fully send a gank, even one you die in gives you the form
  • •If they have lost track of you, a gank after a quiet stretch fills the form bar faster

First Back

Item 1036
Item 1036
Item 2055

Regular full clear & crab

Core Build Examples

Default
Item 6699
Item 3158
Item 2520
Item 6694
Item 3814
Item 3026
Snowballing
Item 6697
Item 6699
Item 3158
Item 3036
Item 3814
Item 3026
Behind
Item 6699
Item 6696
Item 3158
Item 3814
Item 6694
Item 3026
Mid Game

1-3 items

  • •Play around item completions and wait to fight until the next one is done
  • •Poke with W from the walls, whittle them to half health, then Flash, Q and R in
  • •Never dive a full health target, it costs your Flash and R for nothing
  • •Look for laners at 60 to 70 percent health and burst them with Dark Harvest
  • •Finish your camps a minute before an objective, then wait in a bush for whoever walks in
  • •When their jungler is on an objective, E straight over the wall into his camps
  • •Spam E in walls for vision, you see flank angles your team cannot

Situational

vs Armor stackers
Item 6694
Item 3036
Good Vs
Malphite
Ornn
Rammus
Sejuani
Poppy
vs Shields
Item 6695
Good Vs
Nami
Lulu
Milio
Karma
Janna
vs Point and click CC
Item 3814
Item 3111
Good Vs
TwistedFate
Lissandra
Malzahar
Leona
Nautilus
vs Healing
Item 6609
Good Vs
Soraka
Aatrox
Vladimir
DrMundo
Warwick
vs AD divers
Item 3047
Item 6333
Good Vs
Talon
MasterYi
MonkeyKing
Khazix
Nocturne
vs Heavy magic damage
Item 3111
Item 3156
Good Vs
Diana
Syndra
Ekko
Katarina
Ahri
Late Game

4+ items

  • •Scout and poke from walls with E then W until they split up or make a mistake
  • •When they clump, W the group, Flash, Q on top of them, then R the squishiest target
  • •Wait inside R for your cooldowns, then come out to finish or to leave
  • •R needs a hit to cast, so if they dodge everything, Smite them and R in to hide
  • •Without Flash and R you are not a threat, so hold the fight until both are up