Nidalee with Kennen
How to Synergize Nidalee and Kennen
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Nidalee Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Nidalee vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Kennen
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee 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, Nidalee sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kennen helps Nidalee perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee is an ally to Kennen, she gets a little decrease in her total damage output. This may indicate that Kennen does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee 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 alongside Kennen.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Kennen on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Nidalee during teamfights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Kennen
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal companion for Nidalee that will always be her top synergy. However, overall, Kennen is a very bad companion for Nidalee. By locking into the same team as Nidalee, he lowers their win rate by -3.5% to 41.3%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Nidalee and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kennen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Nidalee players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Nidalee and Kennen together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to pair well with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Nidalee and Kennen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee bought at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Kennen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 41.3% helping carry Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 41.3% winrate overall.
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