Kennen with Kalista
How to Synergize Kennen and Kalista
based on 383 Kennen with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Kennen Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kalista helps Kennen perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Kalista, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Kalista does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Kalista 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 with Kalista.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Kalista on the same team, he typically takes less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kalista does a decent job of covering Kennen in teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Kalista
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Kennen that will always be his best synergy. However, Kalista is a very typical companion for Kennen. By being on the same side as Kennen, she drops their win rate by -0.6% to 48.0%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Kennen and Kalista that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kalista has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players should be very careful when finding Kalista allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Kennen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Kennen and Kalista together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough cover. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Kalista ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kennen in order to work well with Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Kennen and Kalista synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Kalista than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Kennen and Kalista pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Kalista with Kennen are displayed for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.