Pyke with Kennen
How to Synergize Pyke and Kennen
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Pyke Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Kennen
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
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.
Pyke Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke 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, Pyke sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Pyke perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pyke is paired with Kennen, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Kennen provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Kennen on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Kennen does a decent job of covering Pyke in team fights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Pyke that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Kennen is a very typical teammate for Pyke. By being on the same side as Pyke, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 50.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Pyke and Kennen that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Kennen comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Pyke players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Pyke and Kennen together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of cover. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pyke to synergize with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Pyke and Kennen synergy build consist of Umbral Glaive, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Pyke combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Kennen than with most other common builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Ultimate Hunter, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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