Kennen with K'Sante
How to Synergize Kennen and K'Sante
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Kennen K'Sante Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Kennen with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Kennen K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that K'Sante helps Kennen perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is paired with K'Sante, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that K'Sante supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with K'Sante on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without K'Sante. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside K'Sante.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with K'Sante on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that K'Sante does a decent job of protecting Kennen in teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and K'Sante
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Is Kennen better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no perfect ally for Kennen that will always be his best teammate. However, K'Sante is a very bad companion for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, they lowers their win rate by -4.0% to 44.6%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Kennen and K'Sante that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
K'Sante has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means Kennen players must be very careful when enlisting K'Sante comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kennen and K'Sante together, you may not be granting your other allies much utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your K'Sante teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Kennen and K'Sante synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of K'Sante than with most other common builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 44.6% when playing alongside K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Kennen players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.6% win rate overall.
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