Lee Sin with Kennen
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Kennen
based on 1,314 Lee Sin with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lee Sin Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Kennen
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Advice to Understand How Kennen Will Play
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.
Lee Sin Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lee Sin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kennen helps Lee Sin perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lee Sin plays on the same team as Kennen, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Kennen provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played alongside Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Additionally, when Lee Sin plays with Kennen on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Lee Sin during team fights.
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Lee Sin that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Kennen is a very typical teammate for Lee Sin. By locking into the same team as Lee Sin, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Lee Sin and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Lee Sin. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Kennen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Lee Sin and Kennen together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Lee Sin in order to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Lee Sin and Kennen synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kennen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Kennen with Lee Sin are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.