{"id":10573,"date":"2017-07-11T06:24:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T13:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/league-of-legends-releases-new-champion-kayn-the-shadow-reaper\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:06:14","slug":"league-of-legends-releases-new-champion-kayn-the-shadow-reaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/league-of-legends-releases-new-champion-kayn-the-shadow-reaper\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Legends Releases New Champion: Kayn, The Shadow Reaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/base-wallpaper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">League of Legends finally reveals their newest champion, Kayn, The Shadow Reaper. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Shieda Kayn, The Shadow Reaper, is a peerless practitioner of the lethal shadow magic. He Wielding an ancient weapon known as Rhaast, he battles to one day lead the Order of the Shadow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Let\u2019s check out his abilities:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YrK-kbqNbk4]<\/p>\n<h2>ABILITIES<\/h2>\n<h3>Passive: The Darkin Scythe<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Kayn wields an ancient weapon which he uses to fight the darkin within, Rhaast, for control. During each game, one can consume the other. Kayn uses his shadow skills to hunt ranged opponents, while Rhaast fuels his bloodlust to battle with melee enemies. If Kayn wins the struggle, he becomes the shadow assassin. But if Rhaast succeeds, the darkin consumes his host and controls it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In <\/span><b><i>Shadow Assassin <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">mode<\/span><b><i>, <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">deals bonus magic damage during the first few seconds of the fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In <\/span><b><i>Darkin <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">mode, Kayn can heal for a chunk of all spell damage dealt with champions. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Q: Reaping Slash<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Kayn dashes forward at the targeted direction, striking nearby enemies at the end of the dash, which deals physical damage. It also deals bonus damage to monsters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In <\/span><b><i>Darkin <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">M<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">ode, this ability deals bonus percent health damage against all enemies except for minions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>W: Blade\u2019s Reach<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Kayn deals damage in a line that significantly slows all enemies hit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In <\/span><b><i>Shadow Assassin <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">mode, Kayn leaves behind a living shadow that casts Blade&#8217;s Reach in Kayn&#8217;s stead. This living shadow&#8217;s Blade also has an increased range.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In <\/span><b><i>Darkin <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">form, Blade&#8217;s Reach can briefly knock up struck enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>E: Shadow Step<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Kayn gains movement speed and the ability to walk through walls for a few moments. When he first enters a wall, he will heal for a small amount, and the duration of Shadow Step will be significantly extended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In <\/span><b><i>Shadow Assassin<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, Kayn gains additional movement speed, and immunity slows when activating this skill.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>R: Umbral Trespass<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Kayn infests any nearby enemy champion who he has recently hit and damaged. Trespassing into a champion makes Kayn invulnerable for a few seconds. Reactivating the ability during this period will end the effect early. Kayn wrenches himself free from the victim&#8217;s body and deals a burst of damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In <\/span><b><i>Shadow Assassin<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, Umbral Trespass can be cast from a range and resets the bonus magic damage from The Darkin Scythe after Kayn&#8217;s exits his victim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In <\/span><b><i>Darkin <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">form, this ability deals extra damage as a percentage of the victim&#8217;s maximum health, healing the Darkin in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">League of Legends is a free-to-play MOBA game for Microsoft Windows <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/category\/gaming-pcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">gaming PCs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> and gaming laptops.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League of Legends finally reveals their newest champion, Kayn, The Shadow Reaper. Shieda Kayn, The Shadow Reaper, is a peerless practitioner of the lethal shadow magic. He Wielding an ancient weapon known as Rhaast, he battles to one day lead the Order of the Shadow. Let\u2019s check out his abilities: [youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YrK-kbqNbk4] ABILITIES Passive: The&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/league-of-legends-releases-new-champion-kayn-the-shadow-reaper\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">League of Legends Releases New Champion: Kayn, The Shadow Reaper<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2735,2747,2258,2724,2742],"tags":[2845,67,2647,4080,4081,69,4082,3072,3654,4083],"class_list":["post-10573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming-pcs","category-general-interest","category-industry-interest","category-news","category-product-reviews","tag-cyber-power-pc","tag-gaming-pc","tag-gaming-pcs","tag-kayn","tag-kayn-the-shadow-reaper","tag-league-of-legends","tag-league-of-legends-kayn","tag-league-of-legends-new-champion","tag-new-champion","tag-new-champion-kayn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16197,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions\/16197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}