Kennen with Kayn
How to Synergize Kennen and Kayn
based on 1,991 Kennen with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Kennen Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kayn helps Kennen perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is an ally to Kayn, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Kayn provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Kayn 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 Kayn.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Kayn on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Kayn does a poor job of protecting Kennen in teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Kayn
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no one best companion for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Kayn is a very typical ally for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 48.2%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Kennen and Kayn that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kayn has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means Kennen players must be very careful when arranging Kayn allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Kennen and Kayn together, you will not be granting your other allies much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kayn ally, you need to focus on increasing 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to synergize with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Kennen and Kayn synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Kayn than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Kennen players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Kennen and Kayn pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kayn with Kennen are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.