Who to play with Kayn — best team synergies

Your page says you lean on teammates to lock a target down: All Out (R) hands you one ripped clean out of their team and rooted. As Shadow Assassin that is exactly the isolated body Umbral Trespass (R) wants to find.

The 2.5 seconds of Umbral Trespass (R) are the time their peel gets to react in: after Unstoppable Force (R) there is no peel, they're all airborne together. You come in from the side with Shadow Step (E) while they watch him.

Rune Prison (W) on a target already marked by Spell Flux (E) turns into a hard root nobody dodges: it's the lockdown you flatly don't own. And Realm Warp (R) brings the team to the flank you already opened with Shadow Step (E).

Your first minutes are the worst part of your game and you can't afford a lane that needs help: he proxy farms and asks for nothing, so you reach The Darkin Scythe (P) transformation without ganks you can't win yet.

The Hextech Ultimatum (R) seals a carry away from everyone protecting her, which is the best gift a Shadow Assassin can get. But it lasts a few seconds: if you aren't already on the flank when it goes off, the pick happens without you.

Destiny (R) reveals where all five of them actually are, so you pick the wall to cross with Shadow Step (E) knowing where nobody is looking; then he teleports next to you to cover the 2.5 seconds of Umbral Trespass (R).

Umbral Trespass (R) leaves you 2.5 seconds of waiting in which their peel can walk your target away: Frozen Tomb (R) is point-and-click and freezes it in place for that entire window. Ring of Frost (W) roots whoever comes to pull you off.

Charm (E) drags the target toward her and takes its control away: it's the lockdown your kit doesn't have, and it lands on a carry that had already drifted. Then Spirit Rush (R) brings her into the pick instead of leaving you alone in it.

Your problem is holding a target still: Sleepy Trouble Bubble (E) puts it to sleep, and the first hit that wakes it adds up to 40 bonus true damage, which will be yours. Reaping Slash (Q) drops on a body that never saw anything coming.

Command: Protect (E) can shield you the instant you re-emerge from Umbral Trespass (R), and Command: Shockwave (R) pulls the scattered back together. But you work from the far flank: half the time the ball simply isn't out there.

Enchanted Crystal Arrow (R) stuns the carry you want from off-screen: the target is already frozen before you even decide to commit. And Frost Shot (P) slows the stragglers Blade's Reach (W) on its own can't quite catch.

Reaping Slash (Q) lands two hits in half a second, so Deadly Flourish (W) almost always comes out as a root: the target holds still while the 200 damage builds. Curtain Call (R) finishes whoever runs past what you can reach.

Chain of Corruption (R) roots the group and spreads between whoever stands close: for the 2.5 seconds you spend inside your target, none of their team can peel. It's the area lockdown your page says you have to borrow from allies.

He brings not one piece of crowd control, so he does nothing for you in a fight; but he's the bot laner who asks for the least help, and the minutes he buys you are exactly the ones you need to fill The Darkin Scythe (P).

Death Sentence (Q) and Flay (E) hold the target still for the whole Umbral Trespass (R) wait, and The Box (R) bars the road to anyone coming to pull it out. If the flank goes wrong, Dark Passage (W) is the way back.

Grand Entrance (W) chained into The Quickness (R) is nearly two full seconds of crowd control on the whole group: that's the entire window in which you're untargetable and your damage matures. And he arrives on the flank with you, not from the front.

Rocket Grab (Q) rips a body out of their formation and Power Fist (E) knocks it up: a Shadow Assassin asks for nothing but an isolated target, and here you get one without spending Umbral Trespass (R) to reach it.

Death From Below (R) executes and passes you the full gold for the kill, and Phantom Undertow (E) is the stun you don't own: two flankers hunting the same thing. But with no front line from top and mid the composition falls apart.