Akshan with Kennen
How to Synergize Akshan and Kennen
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Akshan Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Kennen
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Akshan perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan plays on the same team as Kennen, they sees a small increase in their complete damage output. This may indicate that Kennen provides cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played together with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Kennen on the same team, they usually receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Akshan in team fights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no top ally for Akshan that will 100% of the time be their best ally. Yet, Kennen is a very typical companion for Akshan. By locking into the same side as Akshan, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 48.2%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Akshan and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means Akshan players need to be careful when arranging Kennen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Akshan and Kennen together, you may not be providing your other allies enough tankyness. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akshan to synergize with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Akshan and Kennen synergy build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan combined at least these three finished items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 48.2% helping carry Kennen with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kennen with Akshan are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.