Kennen with Garen
How to Synergize Kennen and Garen
based on 662 Kennen with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Garen Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Garen
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Garen
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.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Kennen Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kennen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Kennen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is an ally to Garen, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Garen helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Garen on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Garen does a decent job of covering Kennen during teamfights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Garen?
There is no top companion for Kennen that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Garen is a very typical ally for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 49.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Kennen and Garen that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you should be very careful when arranging Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Kennen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kennen and Garen together, you will not be granting your side much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kennen to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Kennen and Garen synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Garen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 49.1% helping carry Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Kennen and Garen pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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