Aphelios with Kennen
How to Synergize Aphelios and Kennen
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Aphelios Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Kennen
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios 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 Aphelios perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is an ally to Kennen, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Kennen helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Kennen on the same team, 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 with Kennen.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Kennen on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Kennen does a poor job of covering Aphelios during teamfights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Kennen
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no top synergy for Aphelios that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Kennen is a very typical teammate for Aphelios. By being on the same side as Aphelios, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 48.8%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Aphelios and Kennen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Kennen comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Aphelios players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Aphelios and Kennen together, you may not be granting your side enough cover. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios to synergize with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Aphelios and Kennen synergy build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Kennen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 48.8% helping carry Kennen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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