Nami with Kennen
How to Synergize Nami and Kennen
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Nami Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Nami with Kennen
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Nami in LoL
The Nami Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nami sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kennen helps Nami perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami is an ally to Kennen, she observes a little decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Kennen does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played together with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Kennen on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Kennen does a poor job of covering Nami during teamfights.
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Is Nami better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal synergy for Nami that will no matter what be her best teammate. Yet, Kennen is a very typical companion for Nami. By being on the same side as Nami, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 48.2%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Nami and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Nami. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kennen comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Nami and Kennen together, you may not be giving your side very much cover. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nami to synergize with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nami and Kennen synergy build include Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Nami and Kennen pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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