Bard with Kennen
How to Synergize Bard and Kennen
based on 1,229 Bard with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Bard with Kennen
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard 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 decrease shows that Kennen helps Bard perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Kennen, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Kennen does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Kennen on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kennen does a poor job of covering Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Bard that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Kennen is a terrible ally for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, he drops their win rate by -3.5% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Bard and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kennen allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Bard and Kennen together, you probably will not be granting your side enough cover. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to pair well with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Bard and Kennen synergy build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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