Caitlyn with Kennen
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Kennen
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Caitlyn Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Kennen
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn 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, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Caitlyn perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn tries to synergize with Kennen, she sees a little increase in her full damage dealt. This may signal that Kennen supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kennen.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Kennen on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Caitlyn in teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal ally for Caitlyn that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Kennen is a not very good companion for Caitlyn. By locking into the same team as Caitlyn, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 46.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Caitlyn and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Kennen allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Caitlyn players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Caitlyn and Kennen together, you may not be giving your other allies much tankyness. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Caitlyn and Kennen synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Axiom Arc. When Caitlyn combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Kennen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Caitlyn players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.5% win rate overall.
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