Kennen with Nautilus
How to Synergize Kennen and Nautilus
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Kennen Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Nautilus
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 Nautilus Will Play
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Kennen Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, 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 Nautilus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nautilus helps Kennen perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Nautilus, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Nautilus does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nautilus.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Nautilus on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Nautilus
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no top companion for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Nautilus is a not very good ally for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, he decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Kennen and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players must be careful when finding Nautilus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Kennen and Nautilus together, you may not be providing your team much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kennen to work well with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Kennen and Nautilus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 47.0% helping carry Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Kennen players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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