Kennen with Ahri
How to Synergize Kennen and Ahri
based on 660 Kennen with Ahri pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kennen Ahri Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Ahri
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.
Advice to Understand How Ahri Will Play
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Kennen Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kennen sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ahri helps Kennen perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen tries to synergize with Ahri, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Ahri does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Ahri 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 synergisticly with Ahri.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Ahri on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Ahri does a poor job of covering Kennen in teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Ahri
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no ideal companion for Kennen that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Ahri is a not very good ally for Kennen. By being on the same side as Kennen, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 47.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Kennen and Ahri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Ahri has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players should be cautious when enlisting Ahri allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Kennen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Kennen and Ahri together, you will not be giving your side very much protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Ahri ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kennen in order to work well with Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Kennen and Ahri synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Ahri than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 47.3% when playing alongside Ahri with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kennen players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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