Hecarim with Kennen
How to Synergize Hecarim and Kennen
based on 1,166 Hecarim with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Kennen
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kennen helps Hecarim perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hecarim is paired with Kennen, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Kennen provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played alongside 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.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Kennen on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of protecting Hecarim in team fights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Kennen
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal companion for Hecarim that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Kennen is a below average companion for Hecarim. By being on the same team as Hecarim, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 47.0%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Hecarim and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players don't need to be careful when enlisting Kennen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Hecarim and Kennen together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much support. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim to work well with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Hecarim and Kennen synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Kennen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 47.0% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Hecarim players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kennen with Hecarim are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.