Kennen with Maokai
How to Synergize Kennen and Maokai
based on 1,598 Kennen with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Kennen Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Kennen perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is paired with Maokai, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Maokai provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Maokai on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Maokai does a decent job of covering Kennen in team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Maokai
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kennen that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Maokai is a superb ally for Kennen. By being on the same side as Kennen, he improves their win rate by 3.6% to 52.2%. This shows that there is a very real synergy between Kennen and Maokai that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Kennen and Maokai together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Maokai teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 pair well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Kennen and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 52.2% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 builds players picked for Kennen and Maokai pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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