Irelia with Kennen
How to Synergize Irelia and Kennen
based on 826 Irelia with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Kennen
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kennen helps Irelia perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia tries to synergize with Kennen, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Kennen supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Kennen on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Kennen does a poor job of covering Irelia during teamfights.
Synergies between Irelia and Kennen
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no perfect synergy for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, Kennen is a very typical ally for Irelia. By playing on the same team as Irelia, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Irelia and Kennen that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players don't need to be careful when finding Kennen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Irelia and Kennen together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to synergize with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Irelia and Kennen synergy build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Kennen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 50.1% helping carry Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Irelia and Kennen pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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