Akali with Kennen
How to Synergize Akali and Kennen
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Akali Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Akali with Kennen
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Akali Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Akali in LoL
The Akali Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kennen helps Akali perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali plays on the same team as Kennen, she sees a small decrease in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Kennen does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Kennen on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Akali in teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no one best companion for Akali that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, Kennen is a very bad companion for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, he drops their win rate by -4.0% to 45.1%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Akali and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Kennen teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Akali players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Akali and Kennen together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of engage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Akali and Kennen synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Kennen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 45.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Akali players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.1% win rate overall.
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