Kennen with Kassadin
How to Synergize Kennen and Kassadin
based on 323 Kennen with Kassadin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Kassadin Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Kennen Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kassadin helps Kennen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is paired with Kassadin, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Kassadin doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Kassadin on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kassadin does a poor job of protecting Kennen during team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Kassadin
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no perfect companion for Kennen that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Kassadin is a very typical teammate for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 48.0%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Kennen and Kassadin that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kassadin has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means Kennen players should be careful when finding Kassadin allies to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Kennen and Kassadin together, you may not be giving your other allies much attack damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to work well with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kennen and Kassadin synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 48.0% helping carry Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating 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 Kennen and Kassadin pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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