Kennen with Varus
How to Synergize Kennen and Varus
based on 1,558 Kennen with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Varus Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Varus
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Kennen Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Varus helps Kennen perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is an ally to Varus, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Varus helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played alongside Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Varus.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Varus on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Varus does a poor job of covering Kennen in teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Varus
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Varus?
There is no one best companion for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Varus is a very typical companion for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Kennen and Varus that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Varus has a lower difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players don't need to be cautious when finding Varus comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Kennen players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kennen and Varus together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of tankyness. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Varus ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 pair well with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Kennen and Varus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Varus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside Varus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating 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. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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