Talk:Kayn/@comment-26128186-20170819064255/@comment-26128186-20170819232505

@Lesdin

I suppose so, but it just feels like in general, rhaast can offer so much more with his sustain, cc, and tank while still dealing a ton of damage and being slippery. The primary difference between rhaast and SA is that rhaast can survive long enough to dish out dmg and cc AND survive the fight, while with SA, he kinda just gets blown up half the time. The problem with SA, the way I see it, is that his abilitiy to close in on a squishy and his ability to escape are both kinda mediocre.

Although all of SA's abilities can technically be used to help him close in on a squishy and escape, they all have certain flaws:

- Q is short ranged.

- W is delayed and doesn't slow them for long.

- E can be interrupted with immobilizing effects, doesn't last long out of terrain, AND the enhanced duration can be interrupted if he is forced into combat.

- R only activates if the target is marked with umbral trespass, and he is still placed near the target even after dashing out.

Even if he does manage to close in on a squishy and kill him/her, he will have probably used up a good amount of his abilities, making it hard to escape afterwards.

Kayn, overall, is good with ganking (for obvious reasons), and thus SA is also good at ganking, However, when it gets past laning phase and big teamfights are more likely to occur, SA has a harder time being an assassin, especially when compared to other assassins who have much more to offer than he does, especially in terms of dipping in to kill a squishy and dipping out to escape.