Malphite with Kennen
How to Synergize Malphite and Kennen
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Malphite Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malphite and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Malphite with Kennen
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Malphite in LoL
The Malphite 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, Malphite sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Malphite perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malphite tries to synergize with Kennen, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Kennen doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Malphite is played with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Malphite plays with Kennen on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Kennen does a decent job of covering Malphite during teamfights.
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Is Malphite better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal ally for Malphite that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Kennen is a very bad teammate for Malphite. By locking into the same team as Malphite, he decreases their win rate by -3.3% to 46.8%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Malphite and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kennen has a greater difficulty than Malphite. That means you must be careful when enlisting Kennen allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Malphite players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Malphite and Kennen together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malphite to pair well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Malphite and Kennen synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Malphite bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Malphite players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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