Brand with Kennen
How to Synergize Brand and Kennen
based on 1,781 Brand with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Brand with Kennen
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kennen helps Brand perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand is paired with Kennen, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This could indicate that Kennen does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played together with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Additionally, when Brand plays with Kennen on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Kennen does a decent job of protecting Brand in team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Brand that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Kennen is a very bad companion for Brand. By being on the same side as Brand, he lowers their win rate by -3.2% to 48.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Brand and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Brand. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Kennen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Brand players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Brand and Kennen together, you may not be providing your side very much engage. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to pair well with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Brand and Kennen synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other common builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Brand players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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