Skarner with Kennen
How to Synergize Skarner and Kennen
based on 110 Skarner with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Kennen
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner 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, Skarner 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 decrease shows that Kennen helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner is an ally to Kennen, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Kennen does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played together with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Kennen on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Skarner during teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Kennen
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Skarner that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Kennen is a not very good teammate for Skarner. By being on the same team as Skarner, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 46.4%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Skarner and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be careful 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 fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Skarner players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Skarner and Kennen together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much cover. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to synergize with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Skarner and Kennen synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kennen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 46.4% helping carry Kennen with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
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