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How to Synergize Vayne with Kennen on the Same TeamVayne is in the s tier of champions

Vayne with Kennen

How to Win With Vayne and Kennen Paired TogetherVayne is in the b tier of champions
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How to Synergize Vayne and Kennen

based on 2,051 Vayne with Kennen pairs
Win Rate
48.7 %
K/D/A
2.16
Pick Rate
1 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers download the stats from from millions of LoL games directly from Riot Games each and every week. Vayne has been on the same team as Kennen in 2051 recent, competitive games. By amassing so much great data from the makers of League of Legends, we are confident that we can give you robust, usable builds to help Vayne play with Kennen. It is very rare for Vayne to play alongside Kennen on the same side. This pairing has only happened in about 1.0% of rounds with Vayne.

Vayne Kennen Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Vayne does a poor job of playing alongside Kennen. Typically, she wins an acceptable 48.7% of the time the champs try and work together in. If you want to do better as Vayne when playing with Kennen by figuring out how to better synergize your play style with him, then look into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Vayne vs Kennen Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordNoonquiver

Core Vayne Items

~22 Mins
Wit's EndGuinsoo's RagebladeTerminus

Optional Items

Experimental HexplateVoltaic CycloswordStormrazorStatikk Shiv

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerhaste summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Vayne to level upq
>
Second ability for Vayne to level upw
>
Last skill for Vayne to max oute

Runes

PrecisionLethal TempoTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
ResolveConditioningOvergrowth
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Vayne's passive ability p
Vayne's q ability q
Vayne's w ability w
Vayne's e ability e
Vayne's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
W
3
E
4
Q
5
Q
6
R
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Q
8
W
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Q
10
W
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R
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W
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W
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E
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E
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R

Guide to Synergizing Vayne and Kennen

Tips for Playing as Vayne with Kennen

Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.

Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.

Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.

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.

Vayne Kennen Synergy Stats

Vayne Image
Win Rate
48.7 %
VS
Win Rate
51.3 %
Kennen Image
7.8
< Kills >
7.4
6.3
< Deaths >
6.4
5.8
< Assists >
5.5
1.82
< Killing Sprees >
1.73
168
< Minions Killed >
163
0.23
< Dragons Killed >
0.19
0.49
< Inhibitors >
0.49
15,534
< Physical Damage >
14,953
1,588
< Magic Damage >
1,533
4,490
< True Damage >
4,426
21,613
< Damage Dealt >
20,913
21,947
< Damage Taken >
21,594
12,434
< Gold Earned >
12,107
2.33
< Towers >
2.26
0.07
< Baron Takedowns >
0.06
6,214
< Total Healing >
6,006
13,129
< Experience >
12,904
19
< Vision Score >
18
9
< Wards Placed >
9
71
< Time Dealing CC >
69

How to Play with Kennen as Vayne in LoL

The Vayne Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.

Overall, Vayne sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kennen helps Vayne perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.

When Vayne plays on the same team as Kennen, she observes a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Kennen provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vayne is played with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.

Moreover, when Vayne plays with Kennen on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Vayne during teamfights.

Synergies between Vayne and Kennen

Damage Types Compared

Vayne
Kennen
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Vayne
Kennen

Is Vayne better when played alongside Kennen?

There is no perfect ally for Vayne that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, Kennen is a not very good ally for Vayne. By locking into the same team as Vayne, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 48.7%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Vayne and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.

Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Vayne. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Kennen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.

Fighting together, Vayne players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.

Although, by bringing Vayne and Kennen together, you will not be granting your other teammates much engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.

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 will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Vayne Players

How We Calculated Our Vayne Kennen Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Vayne and Kennen, we analyzed 2,051 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Vayne with Kennen comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To truly master Vayne in order to synergize with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.

The best finished items to get in your Vayne and Kennen synergy build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Vayne combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Kennen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vayne boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside Kennen with these items in her kit.

To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vayne and Kennen pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.

By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Kennen with Vayne are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.