Kennen with Swain
How to Synergize Kennen and Swain
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Kennen Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Swain
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Kennen Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Swain helps Kennen perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kennen is an ally to Swain, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Swain doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Swain on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Swain does a decent job of protecting Kennen during team fights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Swain?
There is no top ally for Kennen that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Swain is a good ally for Kennen. By locking into the same side as Kennen, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Kennen and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means you should be very careful when arranging Swain allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Kennen and Swain together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kennen and Swain synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Swain than with many other common builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you 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 players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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