Kennen with Nidalee
How to Synergize Kennen and Nidalee
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Kennen Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Kennen Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Kennen perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is paired with Nidalee, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Nidalee does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nidalee.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Nidalee on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Nidalee
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no perfect synergy for Kennen that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a terrible teammate for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, she decreases their win rate by -7.3% to 41.3%. This signals that there is a very bad synergy between Kennen and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Nidalee comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Kennen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kennen and Nidalee together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of cover. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kennen in order to work well with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Kennen and Nidalee synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nidalee than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 41.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Kennen players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 41.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Nidalee with Kennen are presented for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.