Talon with Kennen
How to Synergize Talon and Kennen
based on 975 Talon with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Talon Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Talon vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Talon with Kennen
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Talon in LoL
The Talon 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, Talon sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kennen helps Talon perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Talon is an ally to Kennen, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Kennen provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played 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 alongside Kennen.
Additionally, when Talon plays with Kennen on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Kennen does a poor job of covering Talon during teamfights.
Synergies between Talon and Kennen
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Is Talon better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no top synergy for Talon that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Kennen is a very typical companion for Talon. By playing on the same side as Talon, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Talon and Kennen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Talon. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Kennen comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Talon and Kennen together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of cover. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Talon to work well with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Talon and Kennen synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Profane Hydra. When Talon combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kennen than with most other common builds. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 48.7% when playing alongside Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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