Kassadin with Kennen
How to Synergize Kassadin and Kennen
based on 323 Kassadin with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kassadin Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Kassadin vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Kennen
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Kassadin perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin tries to synergize with Kennen, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Kennen supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Kennen on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Kassadin during teamfights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Kennen
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Kennen is a not very good teammate for Kassadin. By playing on the same team as Kassadin, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 48.0%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Kassadin and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be careful when enlisting Kennen allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kassadin and Kennen together, you will not be giving your other allies very much AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Kassadin to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Kassadin and Kennen synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Kennen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 48.0% when playing alongside Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Kassadin players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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