Kennen with Talon
How to Synergize Kennen and Talon
based on 975 Kennen with Talon pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Talon Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Talon
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Kennen Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Talon helps Kennen perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Talon, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Talon provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Talon.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Talon on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Talon does a poor job of protecting Kennen in team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Talon
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Talon?
There is no ideal ally for Kennen that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Talon is a very typical teammate for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Kennen and Talon that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Talon has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players must be careful when arranging Talon comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Kennen players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Kennen and Talon together, you will not be granting your side much cover. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Talon ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kennen in order to work well with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Kennen and Talon synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Talon than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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