Hwei with Kennen
How to Synergize Hwei and Kennen
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Hwei Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Hwei vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hwei and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Hwei with Kennen
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Hwei in LoL
The Hwei Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Hwei sees a large worsening in their 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 Hwei perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hwei is paired with Kennen, they sees a little drop in their complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Kennen doesn't help protection for them to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Hwei is played together with Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Kennen.
Additionally, when Hwei plays with Kennen on the same side, they usually receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Hwei in team fights.
Synergies between Hwei and Kennen
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Is Hwei better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no top ally for Hwei that will always be their top synergy. Yet, Kennen is a terrible teammate for Hwei. By locking into the same side as Hwei, he drops their win rate by -5.8% to 40.2%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Hwei and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Hwei. That means Hwei players don't need to be very careful when lining up Kennen comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Hwei and Kennen together, you will not be providing your other allies very much tankyness. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Hwei in order to work well with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Hwei and Kennen synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Hwei bought at least these three items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Kennen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Hwei had an average win rate of 40.2% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Hwei players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 40.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Kennen with Hwei are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.