Kennen with Soraka
How to Synergize Kennen and Soraka
based on 892 Kennen with Soraka pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Soraka Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Kennen Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Soraka helps Kennen perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is paired with Soraka, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This may indicate that Soraka supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Soraka on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Soraka. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Soraka.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Soraka on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Kennen during teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Soraka
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Soraka is a good teammate for Kennen. By locking into the same side as Kennen, she improves their win rate by 1.0% to 49.6%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Kennen and Soraka that results in them performing better together than alone.
Soraka has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players don't need to be careful when enlisting Soraka comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Kennen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Kennen and Soraka together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Soraka teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Kennen in order to synergize with Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Kennen and Soraka synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Soraka than with many other common builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 49.6% helping carry Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you 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 rune builds players picked for Kennen and Soraka pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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