Kennen with Alistar
How to Synergize Kennen and Alistar
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Kennen Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Kennen Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Kennen perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is an ally to Alistar, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Alistar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Additionally, when Kennen plays with Alistar on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Alistar does a poor job of covering Kennen in team fights.
Synergies between Kennen and Alistar
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no perfect synergy for Kennen that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Alistar is a very typical companion for Kennen. By playing on the same team as Kennen, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 49.1%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Kennen and Alistar that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players must be cautious when arranging Alistar comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by grouping Kennen and Alistar together, you will not be giving your side a lot of attack damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kennen in order to pair well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Kennen and Alistar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kennen had an average win rate of 49.1% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing 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 chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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