Kennen with Yasuo
How to Synergize Kennen and Yasuo
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Kennen Yasuo Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Kennen Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yasuo helps Kennen perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Yasuo, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This may indicate that Yasuo supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Yasuo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yasuo.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Yasuo on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Kennen in team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Yasuo
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kennen that will always be his best synergy. However, Yasuo is a very typical companion for Kennen. By playing on the same side as Kennen, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 49.3%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Kennen and Yasuo that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Kennen. That means Kennen players should be very careful when enlisting Yasuo comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Kennen and Yasuo together, you may not be granting your team a lot of engage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Yasuo ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to synergize with Yasuo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kennen and Yasuo synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Yasuo than with most other common builds. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 49.3% helping carry Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Kennen players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Yasuo with Kennen are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.