Nocturne with Kennen
How to Synergize Nocturne and Kennen
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Nocturne Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Kennen
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
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.
Nocturne Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne 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, Nocturne sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Nocturne perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nocturne is an ally to Kennen, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Kennen supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kennen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Nocturne plays with Kennen on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Nocturne during teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Kennen
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal companion for Nocturne that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kennen is a terrible companion for Nocturne. By playing on the same team as Nocturne, he drops their win rate by -3.2% to 48.6%. This signals that there is a very bad synergy between Nocturne and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Nocturne. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Kennen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Nocturne and Kennen together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to work well with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Nocturne and Kennen synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Eclipse. When Nocturne included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Kennen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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