Graves with Kennen
How to Synergize Graves and Kennen
based on 1,996 Graves with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Graves with Kennen
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kennen helps Graves perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with Kennen, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Kennen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Kennen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Graves that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Kennen is a very typical companion for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 51.0%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Graves and Kennen that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Kennen has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be cautious when finding Kennen teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Graves players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Graves and Kennen together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough cover. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves to pair well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Graves and Kennen synergy build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 51.0% helping carry Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
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