Kennen with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Kennen and Kai'Sa
based on 1,588 Kennen with Kai'Sa pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Kennen Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kai'Sa helps Kennen perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is paired with Kai'Sa, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Kai'Sa helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kai'Sa.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kai'Sa does a decent job of protecting Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Kai'Sa
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no ideal companion for Kennen that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Kai'Sa is a relatively poor ally for Kennen. By being on the same side as Kennen, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Kennen and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you must be very careful when lining up Kai'Sa teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kennen and Kai'Sa together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kennen in order to work well with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kennen and Kai'Sa synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Kai'Sa than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 47.1% helping carry Kai'Sa with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, 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 sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.1% winrate overall.
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