Kennen with Pyke
How to Synergize Kennen and Pyke
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Kennen Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Pyke
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 Pyke Will Play
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Kennen Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, 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 Pyke. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Pyke helps Kennen perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is paired with Pyke, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Pyke supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Pyke.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Pyke on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Pyke does a decent job of protecting Kennen during team fights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best champion pairing for Kennen that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Pyke is a decent ally for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Kennen and Pyke that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means you must be very careful when finding Pyke teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Kennen and Pyke together, you will not be giving your team a lot of engage potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to work well with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Kennen and Pyke synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 50.0% helping carry Pyke with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Kennen players should use 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 sets players used for Kennen and Pyke pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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