Thresh with Kennen
How to Synergize Thresh and Kennen
based on 1,596 Thresh with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Thresh Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Thresh vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Kennen
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh 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 fall shows that Kennen helps Thresh perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is an ally to Kennen, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Kennen does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kennen.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Kennen on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kennen does a decent job of covering Thresh during team fights.
Synergies between Thresh and Kennen
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no top synergy for Thresh that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Kennen is a not very good ally for Thresh. By locking into the same side as Thresh, he decreases their win rate by -2.6% to 45.9%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Thresh and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Thresh. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Kennen allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Thresh players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Thresh and Kennen together, you will not be providing your side a lot of tankyness. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Thresh in order to pair well with Kennen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Thresh and Kennen synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Kennen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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