Alistar with Kennen
How to Synergize Alistar and Kennen
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Alistar Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Kennen
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his 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 Alistar perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Kennen, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This may signal that Kennen doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Kennen on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Alistar during teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Kennen
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal ally for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Kennen is a very typical ally for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 49.1%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Alistar and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when lining up Kennen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, Alistar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Alistar and Kennen together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to synergize with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Alistar and Kennen synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kennen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kennen with Alistar are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.