Neeko with Kennen
How to Synergize Neeko and Kennen
based on 836 Neeko with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Neeko Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Neeko vs Kennen Counter Build
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Core Neeko Items
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Guide to Synergizing Neeko and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Neeko with Kennen
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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.
Neeko Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Neeko in LoL
The Neeko 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, Neeko sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kennen helps Neeko perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Neeko tries to synergize with Kennen, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Kennen doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Neeko is played alongside Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Additionally, when Neeko plays with Kennen on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kennen does a poor job of covering Neeko during teamfights.
Synergies between Neeko and Kennen
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Is Neeko better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Neeko that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Kennen is a not very good teammate for Neeko. By being on the same side as Neeko, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 47.7%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Neeko and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Neeko. That means Neeko players don't need to be careful when arranging Kennen teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Neeko and Kennen together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough cover. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Additional Information for Neeko Players
How We Calculated Our Neeko Kennen Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Neeko to pair well with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Neeko and Kennen synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Neeko used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Kennen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Neeko had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing alongside Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Kennen with Neeko are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.