Master Yi with Kennen
How to Synergize Master Yi and Kennen
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Master Yi Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Master Yi and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Master Yi with Kennen
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
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.
Master Yi Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Master Yi in LoL
The Master Yi 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, Master Yi 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 worsening shows that Kennen helps Master Yi perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Master Yi is paired with Kennen, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Kennen helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Master Yi is played with 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 with Kennen.
Moreover, when Master Yi plays with Kennen on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Master Yi during team fights.
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Is Master Yi better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect companion for Master Yi that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Kennen is a very typical ally for Master Yi. By playing on the same team as Master Yi, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Master Yi and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Master Yi. That means Master Yi players don't need to be careful when lining up Kennen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Master Yi and Kennen together, you probably will not be providing your side much tankyness. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Master Yi in order to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Master Yi and Kennen synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Master Yi used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Kennen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Master Yi boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Master Yi and Kennen pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
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