Kennen with Akshan
How to Synergize Kennen and Akshan
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Kennen Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Kennen Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akshan helps Kennen perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen plays on the same team as Akshan, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Akshan provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played together with Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akshan.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Akshan on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Kennen during team fights.
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kennen that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Akshan is a very typical teammate for Kennen. By locking into the same side as Kennen, they drops their win rate by -0.4% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Kennen and Akshan that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Kennen. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Akshan teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Kennen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Kennen and Akshan together, you probably will not be granting your side very much tankyness. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Akshan teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kennen to pair well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Kennen and Akshan synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Kennen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Akshan than with many other common builds. In fact, Kennen boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akshan with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Kennen players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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