Annie with Kennen
How to Synergize Annie and Kennen
based on 415 Annie with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Annie Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Annie vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Annie with Kennen
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kennen helps Annie perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie plays on the same team as Kennen, she gets a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Kennen does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Kennen on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kennen does a decent job of covering Annie in teamfights.
Synergies between Annie and Kennen
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Is Annie better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect synergy for Annie that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Kennen is a below average companion for Annie. By locking into the same side as Annie, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 48.0%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Annie and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be cautious when arranging Kennen comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Annie players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Annie and Kennen together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of tankyness. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to pair well with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Annie and Kennen synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Kennen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 48.0% when playing alongside Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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