Kennen with Leona
How to Synergize Kennen and Leona
based on 1,492 Kennen with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Leona Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Leona
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Kennen Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Leona helps Kennen perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is an ally to Leona, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Leona helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Leona on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Leona does a decent job of protecting Kennen during team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Leona
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kennen that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, Leona is a good teammate for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, she increases their win rate by 2.7% to 51.3%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Kennen and Leona that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Leona comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, Kennen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Kennen and Leona together, you will not be giving your side very much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Leona ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to synergize with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Kennen and Leona synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kennen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Leona with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing 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. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Leona with Kennen are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.