Kennen with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Kennen and Rek'Sai
based on 234 Kennen with Rek'Sai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Kennen Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rek'Sai helps Kennen perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Rek'Sai, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Rek'Sai doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Rek'Sai
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no top companion for Kennen that will always be his ideal ally. However, Rek'Sai is a terrible companion for Kennen. By locking into the same side as Kennen, he lowers their win rate by -5.9% to 42.7%. This shows that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Kennen and Rek'Sai that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players don't need to be cautious when finding Rek'Sai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Kennen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Kennen and Rek'Sai together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Rek'Sai ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 synergize with Rek'Sai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Kennen and Rek'Sai synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 42.7% when playing alongside Rek'Sai with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Kennen players 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 sets we have analyed for Kennen and Rek'Sai pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.7% winrate overall.
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