Kennen with Samira
How to Synergize Kennen and Samira
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Kennen Samira Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Samira
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Samira
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.
Kennen Samira Synergy Stats
How to Play with Samira as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Samira helps Kennen perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Samira, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Samira does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Samira on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Samira.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Samira on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Samira does a decent job of protecting Kennen in teamfights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Samira?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Samira is a not very good ally for Kennen. By being on the same side as Kennen, she drops their win rate by -1.9% to 46.7%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Kennen and Samira that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Samira has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players must be cautious when enlisting Samira teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Kennen and Samira together, you probably will not be providing your team enough cover. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Samira ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen to pair well with Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Kennen and Samira synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Samira than with most other common builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kennen players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kennen and Samira pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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