Rakan with Kennen
How to Synergize Rakan and Kennen
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Rakan Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Kennen
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan sees a large worsening 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 Rakan perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rakan is an ally to Kennen, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Kennen doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Kennen on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Kennen does a decent job of protecting Rakan during teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Rakan that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Kennen is a relatively poor companion for Rakan. By being on the same team as Rakan, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 49.4%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Rakan and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players don't need to be careful when enlisting Kennen allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by bringing Rakan and Kennen together, you will not be granting your team very much sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan to synergize with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Rakan and Kennen synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Kennen with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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