Katarina with Kennen
How to Synergize Katarina and Kennen
based on 825 Katarina with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Kennen
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kennen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Kennen, she sees a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This may indicate that Kennen doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Kennen on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Kennen does a decent job of covering Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Kennen
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no one best ally for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, overall, Kennen is a not very good teammate for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 46.8%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Katarina and Kennen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kennen comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Katarina players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Katarina and Kennen together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much engage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina to work well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Katarina and Kennen synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Kennen than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when playing alongside Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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