Darius with Kennen
How to Synergize Darius and Kennen
based on 668 Darius with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Darius Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Darius vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Darius with Kennen
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kennen helps Darius perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius is paired with Kennen, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Kennen does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Kennen on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Darius in teamfights.
Synergies between Darius and Kennen
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Is Darius better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal companion for Darius that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kennen is a very typical companion for Darius. By locking into the same side as Darius, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 49.9%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Darius and Kennen that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Kennen has a greater difficulty than Darius. That means you must be cautious when finding Kennen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, Darius players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Darius and Kennen together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much magic damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Darius to pair well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Darius and Kennen synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Darius incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Kennen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Kennen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Darius and Kennen pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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