Ekko with Kennen
How to Synergize Ekko and Kennen
based on 1,197 Ekko with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ekko Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ekko and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Ekko with Kennen
Chronobreak is a potent escape tool, but it can also be quite powerful when used offensively. Don't underestimate its damage potential.
If you can proc Z-Drive Resonance on an enemy champion, it's worth taking risks to do so. The bonus Move Speed makes it easy to escape.
Phase Dive's dash is a great tool for setting up Ekko's other abilities. Use it to get double hits with Timewinder or get into position to detonate Parallel Convergence.
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.
Ekko Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Ekko in LoL
The Ekko 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, Ekko sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Ekko perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ekko is paired with Kennen, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Kennen does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Moreover, when Ekko plays with Kennen on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Ekko in teamfights.
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Is Ekko better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal synergy for Ekko that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Kennen is a relatively poor ally for Ekko. By playing on the same team as Ekko, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 48.6%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Ekko and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Ekko. That means Ekko players don't need to be very careful when finding Kennen teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Ekko players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Ekko and Kennen together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of cover. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Ekko to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Ekko and Kennen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Ekko incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Kennen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ekko boasted an average win rate of 48.6% helping carry Kennen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Ekko players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.6% winrate overall.
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