Amumu with Kennen
How to Synergize Amumu and Kennen
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Amumu Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Kennen
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu 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, Amumu sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kennen helps Amumu perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is paired with Kennen, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Kennen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Kennen on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kennen does a poor job of covering Amumu during teamfights.
Synergies between Amumu and Kennen
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Amumu that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Kennen is a very typical teammate for Amumu. By locking into the same team as Amumu, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 49.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Amumu and Kennen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Kennen has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players must be careful when arranging Kennen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Amumu and Kennen together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
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 anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Amumu to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Amumu and Kennen synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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