Gwen with Kennen
How to Synergize Gwen and Kennen
based on 318 Gwen with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Kennen
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen 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, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kennen helps Gwen perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gwen tries to synergize with Kennen, she gets a little drop in her total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Kennen does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played with Kennen on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Kennen on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Kennen does a poor job of covering Gwen during teamfights.
Synergies between Gwen and Kennen
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect ally for Gwen that will always be her best synergy. However, Kennen is a top-tier teammate for Gwen. By being on the same side as Gwen, he increases their win rate by 4.4% to 52.5%. This proves that there is a very real bond between Gwen and Kennen that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Gwen. That means Gwen players don't need to be careful when finding Kennen allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, Gwen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gwen and Kennen together, you may not be granting your side a lot of engage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen teammate, you need to focus on increasing 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 Gwen to pair well with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Gwen and Kennen synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gwen boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when playing alongside Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
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