Kennen with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Kennen and Heimerdinger
based on 372 Kennen with Heimerdinger pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Kennen Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Heimerdinger helps Kennen perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is paired with Heimerdinger, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Heimerdinger doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Heimerdinger.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Heimerdinger does a decent job of protecting Kennen during teamfights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no ideal companion for Kennen that will always be his best teammate. However, Heimerdinger is a very typical teammate for Kennen. By locking into the same side as Kennen, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 49.2%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Kennen and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means you should be very careful when finding Heimerdinger comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Kennen players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kennen and Heimerdinger together, you may not be granting your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kennen in order to synergize with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Kennen and Heimerdinger synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Heimerdinger than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
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