Kennen with Tristana
How to Synergize Kennen and Tristana
based on 1,358 Kennen with Tristana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Kennen Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tristana helps Kennen perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is an ally to Tristana, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Tristana does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Tristana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tristana.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Tristana on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Tristana does a decent job of covering Kennen in teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Tristana
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Kennen that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Tristana is a very typical teammate for Kennen. By being on the same team as Kennen, she drops their win rate by -0.7% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Kennen and Tristana that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Tristana has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Tristana teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Kennen and Tristana together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of cover. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tristana ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 to synergize with Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Kennen and Tristana synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Tristana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tristana with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take 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 runes players chose for Kennen and Tristana pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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