Kennen with Graves
How to Synergize Kennen and Graves
based on 1,996 Kennen with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Graves Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Graves
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
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.
Kennen Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Kennen perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is paired with Graves, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Graves supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Graves on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Kennen in team fights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Graves?
There is no perfect synergy for Kennen that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Graves is a good ally for Kennen. By playing on the same side as Kennen, he raises their win rate by 2.4% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Kennen and Graves that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Graves allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Kennen players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Kennen and Graves together, you may not be granting your side much engage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kennen to synergize with Graves during both the lane 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 use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Kennen and Graves synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Kennen and Graves pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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