Maokai with Kennen
How to Synergize Maokai and Kennen
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Maokai Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Kennen
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai 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, Maokai 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 Maokai perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is paired with Kennen, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Kennen does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played alongside Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Kennen on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Kennen does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Maokai that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Kennen is a very typical ally for Maokai. By being on the same side as Maokai, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 52.2%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Maokai and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kennen has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you should be cautious when arranging Kennen teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Maokai players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by bringing Maokai and Kennen together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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 truly master Maokai to work well with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Maokai and Kennen synergy build include Trailblazer, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Maokai used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Kennen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 52.2% helping carry Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Maokai players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Maokai and Kennen pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.2% win rate overall.
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