Nunu & Willump with Kennen
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Kennen
based on 846 Nunu & Willump with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Kennen
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump 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, Nunu & Willump 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 Nunu & Willump perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump is an ally to Kennen, he gets a little drop in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Kennen does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played together 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.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Kennen on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Nunu & Willump in team fights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Kennen
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nunu & Willump that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Kennen is a not very good teammate for Nunu & Willump. By playing on the same team as Nunu & Willump, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 46.2%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Nunu & Willump and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means Nunu & Willump players don't need to be careful when lining up Kennen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nunu & Willump players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Nunu & Willump and Kennen together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nunu & Willump in order to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Nunu & Willump and Kennen synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 46.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Nunu & Willump players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Kennen with Nunu & Willump are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.