Gragas with Kennen
How to Synergize Gragas and Kennen
based on 416 Gragas with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Kennen Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Gragas Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Kennen
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kennen helps Gragas perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is paired with Kennen, he gets a moderate decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Kennen doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Kennen on the same side, 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.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Kennen on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Gragas during teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Kennen
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Gragas better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal ally for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Kennen is a below average companion for Gragas. By being on the same side as Gragas, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 46.4%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Gragas and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be cautious when finding Kennen allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Gragas players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Gragas and Kennen together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability 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 should do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Gragas
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Gragas Players
How We Calculated Our Gragas Kennen Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Gragas and Kennen synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kennen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Gragas players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kennen with Gragas are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.